Dietary intake practices associated with cardiovascular risk in urban and rural Ecuadorian adolescents: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Food patterns loadings using food groups’ energy percentage per day

Food group	“Rice-rich non-animal fat pattern”	“Wheat-dense animal-fat pattern”
White Rice	0.8	0.0
Refined Wheat	−0.1	0.5
Other refined cereals	−0.4	−0.1
Whole grains	0.0	−0.3
Maize	0.1	−0.5
Tubers	0.3	0.0
Plantain	0.2	0.4
Legumes	0.2	−0.2
Total fruit	0.0	−0.2
Vegetables	0.2	0.0
Poultry	0.1	−0.2
Red meat	0.0	0.4
Fish and seafood	−0.1	−0.2
Dairy	−0.5	0.3
Oilseeds	−0.2	0.1
Vegetable oil	0.6	0.4
Animal fat	−0.4	0.4
Processed food^a	−0.5	−0.2
Coffee	0.2	0.1
% Variance explained	10.8	19.0

^aProcessed food includes sweets, snacks, soft drinks and any other packaged food item.
Spices were removed as food groups as the factor loading was <0.10.
Bold: Factor loadings greater than 0.3.

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