Dietary patterns in Canadian men and women ages 25 and older: relationship to demographics, body mass index, and bone mineral density

Table 1 Food Categories and Factor Loadings Based on CaMos Year 2 Food Frequency Questionnaire

Category	Items	Factor Loadings
		Nutrient dense	Energy dense
Coffee
Tea
Water	Bottled water, tap water	0.29
Juice	Fresh fruit juice, frozen concentrated fruit juice	0.28
Low fat milk	Skim and 1% milk	0.22
High fat milk	2% and whole milk		0.21
Beer			0.26
Alcohol	Wine, liquor
Soft drinks	Soft drinks, powdered drink mix		0.42
Fruit 1	Apples, oranges, bananas	0.48
Fruit 2	Cantaloupe, other fruit	0.54
Tomatoes	Tomatoes, tomato juice	0.49
Green vegetables	Broccoli, spinach, other leafy greens	0.61
Yellow vegetables	Cabbage, cauliflower, sweet potato, squash, brussel sprouts	0.56
Other vegetables	Carrots, corn, peas, green beans, soup, other vegetables	0.59
Whole grains	Dark whole grain bread, bran/granola, shredded wheat	0.46
White bread	White bread/rolls	-0.24	0.37
Cereal	Cold cereal, cooked cereal	0.25
Rice		0.26
Pasta	Macaroni, spaghetti, noodles	0.22	0.26
Potatoes		0.25	0.24
Meat 1	Beef, pork, lamb, poultry (main dish or mixed)	0.28	0.28
Meat 2	Hamburger		0.50
Meat 3	Hotdog, lunch meat, smoked meat		0.55
Meat 4	Bacon, sausage		0.56
Fish	Fish (fresh, frozen, smoked, dried)	0.40
Eggs			0.32
Cheese		0.25	0.30
Nuts	Nuts, peanut butter	0.21	0.20
Legumes	Beans, lentils, tofu, soybeans	0.37
Sweets 1	Cake, pie, cookies		0.28
Sweets 2	Ice cream, chocolate, doughnuts		0.47
Added fats	Margarine, butter, mayonnaise		0.35
High fat potatoes	Fries, Potato chips		0.58
Percentage of overall variance explained by factor		9.3%	7.8%

Factor loadings with absolute value less than 0.2 indicated by blanks and those above 0.4 indicated in bold to visually emphasize strength of association. Sign of factor score indicates direction of association.