Dietary patterns are influenced by socio-demographic conditions of women in childbearing age: a cohort study of pregnant women

Teixeira, Juliana Araujo; Castro, Teresa Gontijo; Grant, Cameron C.; Wall, Clare R.; Castro, Ana Lúcia da Silva; Francisco, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; Vieira, Sandra Elisabete; Saldiva, Silvia Regina Dias Medici; Marchioni, Dirce Maria

doi:10.1186/s12889-018-5184-4

Table 1 Pre-pregnancy dietary patterns for women, ProcriAr study (n = 454) - São Paulo/Brazil, 2012

From: Dietary patterns are influenced by socio-demographic conditions of women in childbearing age: a cohort study of pregnant women

	Lentils, whole grains and soups	Snacks, sandwiches, sweets and soft drinks	Seasoned vegetables and lean meats	Sweetened juices, bread and butter, rice and beans
Food items^a	Rotated factor loadings
Lentils	0.54	0.01	0.15	−0.10
Wheat bread and brown rice	0.51	−0.10	− 0.03	− 0.04
Soups	0.47	0.01	0.21	0.07
Popcorn	0.47	0.17	0.04	0.09
Cereal ready to eat and Oats	0.46	0.02	0.16	0.04
White cheese	0.44	0.07	0.08	−0.01
Desserts with fruits and jelly	0.44	0.00	0.23	−0.09
Simple cakes	0.41	0.06	0.01	0.13
Soy beverages	0.41	−0.02	0.11	0.00
Beef jerky	0.40	0.13	−0.06	0.08
Nuts	0.40	0.23	0.00	−0.05
Crackers	0.35	0.09	−0.01	− 0.03
Soy sauce	0.35	0.08	0.10	−0.02
Tea (sweetened)	0.30	0.00	0.19	−0.02
Beef (roasted, cooked or soaked)	0.29	0.22	0.00	−0.07
Processed meats, sandwiches and snacks	−0.05	0.59	0.04	−0.03
Sandwich sauces	0.07	0.54	−0.04	−0.09
Desserts and sweets	0.19	0.50	−0.05	0.06
Soft drinks	−0.14	0.48	−0.16	0.10
Pasta with meat sauce and gnocchi	0.13	0.44	0.16	−0.02
Stuffed pasta (cannelloni, lasagne)	0.32	0.39	0.02	0.05
Yogurt with flavour (whole milk)	0.06	0.39	0.03	−0.19
Pork and Frankfurters	−0.01	0.39	0.06	0.09
Bakery with filling (cake and cookies)	0.12	0.38	−0.09	0.19
Fried beef and fried chicken	−0.09	0.38	0.10	0.13
Fried egg or omelette	0.14	0.36	0.12	0.33
Potato salad, with vegetables and mayonnaise	0.03	0.36	0.27	0.14
Alcoholic beverages (beer, wine and caipirinha^b)	0.03	0.35	−0.02	−0.29
Chocolate milk (powder)	0.01	0.33	0.03	0.25
Feijoada ^c	0.31	0.32	0.05	0.12
Potato or cassava (fried)	−0.06	0.32	−0.08	0.30
Mozzarella cheese	0.22	0.30	0.20	−0.04
Vegetables	0.20	−0.05	0.69	−0.11
Oil (for salad dressing)	−0.03	0.04	0.67	−0.05
Salt	−0.07	0.00	0.66	−0.03
Lean meats and fish	0.25	0.00	0.53	0.02
Potato or cassava (boiled or roasted)	0.21	0.13	0.39	0.06
Fruits	0.29	−0.09	0.31	−0.07
Sweetened juices (natural or artificial)^d	0.08	−0.02	−0.13	0.70
Butter or margarine (regular and salted)	−0.19	0.17	0.19	0.46
French bread and white rice	−0.27	0.11	0.32	0.39
Beans	−0.01	0.09	0.23	0.36
Whole milk (3.5–4% fat)	−0.07	0.04	0.16	0.36
Yogurt (whole milk)	0.26	−0.32	0.05	0.33
Unsweetened juices (natural or artificial)	0.04	0.04	0.29	−0.59
Percentage of variance explained (%)	9.9	6.6	4.7	4.3

In bold are the rotated factor loadings > 0.25 or < −0.25. ^aThe food items fruit smoothies, sweetened coffee, farofa, cassava or corn (flour), offal, pasta with meatless sauce, and vinaigrette were excluded from this analysis because they did not load on any of the retained factors. Traditional recipes: ^bCaipirinha - a drink made with cachaça (a hard liquor from sugar cane), fresh limes, sugar and ice; ^cFeijoada: black bean stew. ^dNatural juices are made with fresh fruits or frozen fruit pulps, with the addition of water or not. Artificial juices are artificial powdered drink mixes, fruit nectars, or sweetened processed juice

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