Table 1 Food groups used in the factor analysis
Food group | Food items included in the group |
|---|---|
Rice | White and brown rice |
Wheat flour | Wheat flour |
Wheat buns, breads | Bun, butter bread, salty bread |
Deep-fried wheat | Deep-fried dough stick, deep-fried cake with red bean paste and sugar, deep-fried sweet sesame seed ball |
Corn and coarse grain | Corn, corn grits, corn flour, barley, oats, foxtail millet, sorghum |
Starchy roots and tubers | Potato, yam, taro, lotus root, water chestnut, cassava, sweet potato |
Fresh legumes | Soybean sprouts, peas in pods, mung bean sprouts |
Dried legumes | Soybean flour, dried beans, bean flour, roasted broad beans |
Legume products | Tofu, tofu products, red/mung bean paste |
Nuts and seeds | Sesame, sunflower, watermelon, and lotus seeds, peanuts, walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pinenuts, pistachios, cashew nuts |
Fresh vegetables | Spinach, bok choy, cabbage, cauliflower, tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini, mushrooms |
Pickled, salted, or canned vegetables | Canned tomato sauce, preserved vegetables, vegetables in soy sauce |
Fruits | Fresh and canned fruits (without added sugar), dates, dried longan, raisins, dried and canned fruit (with added sugar) |
Pork | Pork tenderloin, pork tendons, pork belly, leg, rib chop |
Other livestock meat | Beef, lamb, donkey, rabbit |
Offal | Liver, kidney, large intestine, blood |
Poultry and game | Chicken, duck, goose |
Eggs and egg products | Whole eggs, yolk, egg white, preserved eggs |
Fish and seafood | Fresh- and salt-water fish, dried fish, shellfish |
Animal-based milk and dairy products | Cow milk, goat milk, skim milk, flavored milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream |
Alcoholic beverages | Liquors, wine, vodka, cocktails, whiskey, beer |