Table 1 Food groups used in the dietary pattern analysis
From: Dietary patterns and risk of colorectal cancer in Tehran Province: a case–control study
Food group | Food items |
|---|---|
Processed meat | Sausages, hamburger, salami |
Red Meat | Beef, mutton, ground meat ,Visceral meat |
Fish | Tuna, any type of fish |
Poultry | Chicken |
Egg | Fried eggs, boiled eggs |
Low fat dairies | Low fat milk, Low fat yogurt, ordinary yogurt, |
High fat dairies | Whole milk, yogurt( high fat, drained and cream), cream cheese, cream, ice cream |
Yogurt drink | Yogurt drink |
Tea | Black tea, green tea |
Coffee | Coffee |
Fruits | Cantaloupe, watermelon, melon, sloe, apple, apricot, cherry, sour cherry, fig, nectarine, peach, pear, Citrus fruit, date, kiwi, grape, pomegranate, strawberry, banana, grape fruit, plum, persimmon, raisin, mulberry, compotes, other fruits |
Artificial juice | Lemon juice and packed juice |
Tomato | Tomato |
Carrot | Carrot |
vegetables | Spinach, lettuce, mixed vegetable, stew vegetables, eggplant, green squash, local vegetables, pepper, mushroom, cucumber, garlic, kinds of cabbage, root vegetables, other vegetables |
Legumes | Bean, chickpea, split pea, soybean, lentil, other cereals |
Fried potato | Fried potato |
Boiled potato | Boiled potato |
Whole grains | Barbari bread, Sangak bread, Taftoon bread, local bread |
Refined grains | Lavash bread, baguette, rice, macaroni |
Snacks | Biscuits, puff, chips |
Nuts | Peanut, almond, walnut, pistachio, hazelnut, roasted seeds |
Sweets and desert | Cakes, cookies, chocolate, pastry, dry sweet, honey, jam, halvah |
Sugar | Sugar, sugar cube, candy, sugar candy, tahini |
Pickles | pickle, cucumber Pickle |
Animal butter | Animal butter |
Solid oil | Solid vegetable oil, animal fat, rump |
Liquid oil | liquid oil |
Olive | Olive and olive oil |
Mayonnaise | Mayonnaise |
Soft drink | Carbonated drinks |