Association of dietary patterns with serum adipokines among Japanese: a cross-sectional study

Nutrition Journal

Table 1 Factor loading matrix for dietary patterns identified by principal component analysis^a

	Japanese pattern	Westernized breakfast pattern	Meat food pattern
Cabbage/Chinese cabbage	0.75	-	-
Carrots/pumpkin	0.74	-	-
Green leaves vegetables	0.72	-	-
Mushrooms	0.70	−0.15	-
Other root vegetables	0.69	-	-
Japanese radish/turnip	0.65	-	−0.19
Lettuces/cabbage (raw)	0.55	-	0.20
Seaweeds	0.53	−0.22	−0.18
Potatoes	0.45	-	-
Tomatoes	0.42	-	0.15
Tofu/atsuage^b	0.35	−0.27	−0.24
Persimmons/strawberries/kiwifruit	0.33	0.17	−0.31
Other fruit	0.31	0.22	−0.24
Pickled green leaves vegetables	0.24	−0.20	−0.23
Lean fish	0.22	−0.18	0.15
Natto^c	0.20	-	−0.16
Green tea	0.20	-	-
Sake	−0.15	-	-
Whisky	−0.17	-	-
Buckwheat noodles	−0.18	−0.15	-
Japanese wheat noodles	−0.18	-	-
Cola drink/soft drink	−0.22	0.17	-
Chinese noodles	−0.34	−0.20	-
Western-type confectioneries	-	0.64	-
Japanese confectioneries	0.15	0.55	−0.19
Rice crackers/rice cake/okonomiyaki^d	-	0.50	-
Bread	-	0.46	0.24
Milk and yogurt	-	0.33	0.16
Ice cream	−0.23	0.28	-
100 % fruit and vegetable juice	-	0.17	-
Coffee	-	0.17	-
Oily fish	-	−0.21	-
Other pickles	0.18	−0.25	−0.16
Dried fish/salted fish	-	−0.25	-
Liver	-	−0.27	-
Beer	−0.21	−0.30	0.15
Shochu	−0.24	−0.39	-
Pork/beef	-	-	0.49
Chicken	-	−0.15	0.46
Ham/sausage/bacon	-	-	0.38
Mayonnaise/dressing	0.24	-	0.37
Black tea/oolong tea	-	0.15	0.29
Egg	-	-	0.26
Spaghetti and macaroni	-	-	0.26
Squid/octopus/shrimp/shellfish	-	−0.21	0.23
Canned tuna	-	-	0.20
Low-fat milk and yogurt	-	-	−0.16
Small fish with bones	0.18	−0.22	−0.25
Miso soup	-	−0.24	−0.36
Citrus fruit	0.29	0.19	−0.36
Rice	−0.34	−0.28	−0.48

^aFactor loading less than ±0.15 is represented by a dash for simplicity. The table omits food items with factor loadings less than ±0.15 for all dietary patterns (wine)
^bDeep-fried tofu
^cFermented soybeans
^dMeat/fish and vegetable pancake

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