Identifying eating habits in Finnish children: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Factor loads for each food items used in factor analysis and percentage of variance explained by each factor

	Factors
	Sweets	Fast food	Fruit/ vegetable	Salty snacks/ sugary juice	Dark grain bread
Pizza	0.156	0.809	−0.013	0.026	0.040
Hamburger or hot dog	0.123	0.765	−0.076	0.181	−0.046
Biscuits/cookies	0.767	0.094	−0.055	0.237	0.125
Sweet pastry	0.741	0.156	−0.039	0.206	0.114
Ice cream	0.652	0.326	0.176	−0.095	− 0.423
Salty snacks	0.219	0.466	−0.041	0.517	−0.037
Sugary juice drink (squash)	0.212	0.097	0.091	0.856	−0.068
Dark grain bread	0.134	0.026	0.310	−0.105	0.847
Fruit or berries	0.034	0.003	0.841	0.048	0.129
Fresh or grated vegetables/salad	−0.054	−0.093	0.842	0.015	0.101
Percentage of variance explained by each factor (total = 70%)	27.8%	17.7%	8.9%	8.3%	7.4%

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