TABLE 2.

Characteristics of the annual food consumption distributions for 22 foods included in the factor analysis, values represent the annual frequency of consumption (n=358)

Foods	Untransformed values					Natural log transformed values
	Mean	Median	SD*	Skewness	Kurtosis	Mean	Median	SD*	Skewness	Kurtosis
Salty snacks	55.38	30.00	88.85	3.01	12.32	1.63	3.40	3.71	−0.95	−0.77
Sweetened cereals	51.04	12.00	96.40	3.37	15.33	0.40	2.48	4.21	−0.26	−1.75
Pizza	31.22	12.00	72.56	6.04	49.40	0.05	2.48	4.02	−0.22	−1.80
Sweetened drinks	229.75	78.27	389.52	2.43	6.17	2.25	4.36	4.43	−0.76	−1.12
Hot dogs and lunch meat	29.91	12.00	62.12	5.86	50.79	0.40	2.48	3.92	−0.43	−1.67
Fried chicken	22.83	12.00	36.94	3.82	18.94	0.59	2.48	3.72	−0.62	−1.48
Canned tuna	8.69	0.01	28.03	7.79	81.93	−2.53	−4.61	3.43	1.09	−0.74
Fresh citrus	31.84	12.00	64.61	5.61	44.87	0.90	2.48	3.72	−0.72	−1.28
Potato salad	11.40	0.01	33.07	6.26	44.90	−1.75	−4.61	3.70	0.56	−1.60
Citrus juice	67.44	24.00	170.07	3.99	16.46	−0.06	3.18	4.40	0.01	−1.84
Corn	56.14	30.00	89.94	3.67	19.08	2.08	3.40	3.39	−1.29	0.12
Green beans	42.32	12.00	70.31	2.76	8.25	1.08	2.48	3.83	−0.70	−1.27
Green salad	8.88	0.01	27.55	6.17	45.96	−2.44	−4.61	3.46	1.01	−0.89
Pudding and jello	10.82	0.01	23.31	6.58	64.21	−1.30	−4.61	3.76	0.29	−1.86
Dried salmon	116.93	52.18	128.64	1.72	4.30	3.26	3.95	3.13	−1.82	2.09
Wild game soup†	89.48	41.09	106.76	2.48	9.88	3.39	3.68	2.36	−2.13	4.84
Pancakes	59.64	30.00	107.94	4.03	19.90	2.11	3.40	3.36	−1.31	0.23
Market berries in akutaq	19.44	0.01	54.45	7.95	87.67	−1.01	−4.61	3.94	0.23	−1.84
Seal or walrus soup†	23.86	12.00	40.49	3.49	15.06	0.60	2.48	3.66	−0.62	−1.40
Non-oily fish (not dried)†	20.63	3.96	42.45	4.38	24.88	−0.32	1.38	3.87	−0.12	−1.83
Wild greens†	10.03	0.01	30.64	7.48	71.68	−1.71	−4.61	3.54	0.51	−1.55
Bird soup†	40.96	30.00	51.53	2.81	9.93	2.47	3.40	2.70	−1.94	2.65

^*Standard deviation

^†seasonal food items