Dietary availability patterns of the brazilian macro-regions

Nutrition Journal

Table 2 Loading values according to dietary patterns extracted by principal components analyses of the geographic regions of Brazil

	North			Northeast			Southeast		South		Midwest
Food Groups	Regional	Rice and Beans	Fruit/Greens/Sweets	Rice and Beans	High Energy	High Protein	Rice and Beans	Mixed	Rice and Beans	Mixed	Rice and Beans	Mixed
Rice		0.69		0.53			0.70		0.70		0.79
Beans		0.56		0.65			0.69		0.69		0.74
Vegetables and leafy vegetables			0.57			0.62		0.55		0.55		0.62
Potatoes			0.69		0.55			0.53		0.53		0.50
Others tuberous roots			0.37		0.52			0.38		0.38		0.57
Flours (wheat, manioc and corn meal)	0.69			0.55			0.76		0.76		0.56
Fruits			0.50			0.53		0.64		0.64		0.65
Nuts and coconut	0.52					0.20		0.14		0.14		0.14
Pastry	0.44				0.61		0.47		0.47		0.55
Breads	0.38				0.56			0.49		0.49		0.44
Cakes & cookies	0.32				0.49			0.55		0.55		0.46
Meats	0.45					0.58	0.52		0.52			0.35
Poultry and eggs	0.53					0.33	0.46		0.46			0.37
Fish	0.66					0.28		0.29		0.29		0.25
Milk and dairy		0.46			0.19			0.46		0.46		0.32
Butter and Margarine	0.51				0.60			0.39		0.39		0.39
Sugar		0.59		0.77			0.69		0.69		0.75
Sweetened beverages			0.54		0.41			0.55		0.55		0.49
Oils and fats		0.72		0.68			0.70		0.70		0.77
Caffeinated beverages		0.50		0.63			0.58		0.58		0.56
Products diets/light			0.40		0.30			0.24		0.24		0.31
Eigenvalues	2.90	2.88	2.26	2.99	2.69	1.77	3.76	2.86	4.0	3.0	3.86	2.91
%Variance explained	20.4	14.6	11.6	19.6	16.1	8.0	22.4	15.2	27.1	12.3	25.2	12.3
Cronbach Coefficient Alpha	0.76	0.76	0.68	0.80	0.73	0.60	0.86	0.76	0.86	0.75	0.85	0.78
Kaiser's Measure of Sampling Adequacy	0.83			0.84			0.87		0.89		0.88

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