Table 1 Food groups used to calculate the Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Pattern (EDIP) score
Food groups | Food items |
|---|---|
Pro-inflammatory | |
Processed meat | Sausages, salami |
Red meat | Beef, lamb, hamburger patty |
Organ meat | Beef / chicken liver, other organ meats of lamb and beef |
Other fish | Canned tuna, fish other than dark-meat fish |
Other vegetables | Celery, mushroom, green pepper, corn, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber |
Refined grains | White bread, muffin, bagel or roll breads, white rice, pasta, biscuits, noodle |
High energy beverages | Soft drinks, other carbonated beverages with sugar or fruit punch drinks |
Tomatoes | Fresh Tomato, tomato sauce |
Anti-inflammatory | |
Tea | Dark tea |
Coffee | Coffee |
Dark yellow vegetables | Carrots, winter squash |
Leafy green vegetables | Spinach, lettuce, mixed vegetables |
Snacks | Potato chips, corn chips, pufak (extruded corn snack), popcorn, cracker |
Fruit Juice | Apple, orange, cantaloupe juices |
Pizza | Pizza |