Table 1 Thirty-seven food groups derived from the 140-item food frequency questionnaire of the Mexican Teachers’ Cohorta
Food group | Description |
|---|---|
Carrots | Carrots |
Tomato | Red tomato cooked and raw |
Green vegetables | Lettuce, dark leafy greens, broccoli or cauliflower, cabbage |
Starchy vegetables | Potatoes and corn |
Other vegetables | Onions, tomatillo, cucumber, squash/chayote, avocado, nopal, jicama, green beans, beets, pumpkin flowers |
Hot peppers | Hot peppers sauce, hot peppers canned, dried hot peppers |
Fruits | Lime, orange/mandarin, apple, papaya, banana, mango, guava, pear, pineapple, melon, watermelon, apricot, grapes, prickly pear, strawberries, grapefruit, raisins, plum, mamey, sapodilla |
Legumes | Beans, Green peas, lentils, broad beans |
Nuts | Peanuts, walnuts, almonds - unprocessed |
Milk and yogurt | Whole, skim and semi milk, soy milk, yogurt or bulgurs |
Cheese | Fresh cheese, Oaxaca, Cream cheese, Other types of cheese, Manchego/Chihuahua cheese |
Egg | Egg |
Seafood | Canned tuna, white fish, shrimp, fatty fish, other seafood, canned sardines, and dry fish |
Poultry | Chicken |
Red meat | Beef, pork, barbacoa, carnitas, dry beef, birria |
Organs | Liver, pancita or menudo |
Pozole | Pozole |
Corn tortilla | Corn tortilla |
Pasta and rice | Rice and pasta |
Refined grains | French style baguette, ready to eat cereals, white loaf of bread, wheat flour tortilla, saltine crackers |
Whole grain | Whole loaf of bread, high fiber ready to eat cereals |
Atole | Atole with and without milk |
Breakfast and cereal bars | Oats, granola bars |
Candies and jams | Candy, jams, chocolate |
Pastries | Sweet bread, cookies, donuts, cakes |
Milk desserts | Jello or flan, fermented milk drink, Ice cream, petit suisse, |
Fast foods | Pizza, hotdog, hamburguers |
Meat by products | Turkey ham, pork ham, sausage, chorizo/longaniza, pork skins, bacon, other cold meats |
Antojitos | Sopes/quesadillas, tacos, tamales, tortas |
Butter, margarine and cream | Cream, butter, margarine |
Snacks | Fried snacks, processed snack nuts |
Coffee and tea | Regular or decaf coffee and tea |
Soda | Regular soda |
SSBs | Fruit waters, hibiscus water |
Juice | Orange juice |
Alcohol | Beer, tequila, brandy, whisky, rum, pulque, mezcal, aguardiente |
Wine | Wine |