Socio-demographic and lifestyle determinants of dietary patterns in French-speaking Switzerland, 2009–2012

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Factor loadings derived from principal component analysis and percentage of total variance explained for the three dietary patterns identified, 4372 participants of the CoLaus study, 2009–2012, Lausanne, Switzerland

Food group	Item	Meat & fries	Fruits & vegetables	Fatty & sugary
Dairy	Full fat or semi-skimmed dairy products	−0.076	0.074	0.207
	Low fat dairy products	0.007	0.166	−0.124
	Whole milk cheese	−0.035	0.091	0.259
Bread and cereals	White bread	0.091	−0.137	0.297
	Wholemeal bread	−0.092	0.258	−0.008
	Breakfast cereals	−0.091	0.195	−0.030
	Toasts, crackers	−0.024	0.125	−0.024
Meat	Red meat	0.421	0.008	0.015
	Poultry	0.389	0.104	−0.098
	Processed meat	0.423	−0.039	0.047
	Liver	0.419	0.054	−0.099
Fish	Oily fish	0.118	0.240	−0.148
	Canned or fried fish	0.151	0.106	0.017
	Lean fish & seafood	0.069	0.287	−0.116
Vegetables	Vegetables	0.154	0.366	0.004
	Boiled potatoes	0.091	0.179	0.120
	French fries	0.344	−0.135	0.063
Pasta, other	Sauces (any)	0.041	0.242	0.116
	Cafeteria foods	0.138	−0.032	0.223
	Starchy foods	0.108	0.142	0.159
	Eggs	0.045	0.160	0.074
	Tofu	−0.049	0.147	−0.030
Fruit	Fresh fruit or juice	−0.085	0.358	0.044
Fruit	Canned fruit	0.031	0.044	0.126
Fats	Low-cal fat products	−0.013	0.096	0.010
	Hard fats	−0.004	0.026	0.374
	Olive oil	−0.043	0.269	0.093
	Other vegetable oils	0.037	0.090	0.201
Pastries and sweets	Bakery	−0.010	−0.029	0.345
	Chocolate	−0.086	0.022	0.447
	Sugar substitutes	−0.005	0.078	−0.083
Vitamins, supplements	Vitamin supplements	−0.047	0.116	−0.034
Vitamins, supplements	Other supplements	−0.040	0.118	−0.106
Drinks	Sodas	0.101	−0.061	0.206
	Tea & coffee	−0.106	0.170	0.141
	Water	−0.040	0.176	0.007
	Alcoholic drinks	0.100	−0.154	0.081
	% variance explained	8.1	7.2	5.6

Factor loadings with absolute values > 0.300 were used to characterize the dietary pattern and are indicated in bold

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