Table a1 Food groups and food items introduced in the factor analysis

Appetizers

Savoury biscuits, olives and nuts

Artificial sweeteners

Added by the women to hot drinks, yoghurts, and so on (mostly aspartame)

Biscuits

Sweet biscuits such as digestive biscuits, chocolate-coated biscuits.

Bottled water

Mineral water, spring water (plain or sparkling)

Bread

Bread of any kind, including white bread, whole meal bread, toast

Breakfast cereals

Sweetened and unsweetened

Butter, cream^a

Salted and plain butter, clotted cream

Cakes

Cakes, sweet pies, pastries (homemade or commercial)

Cheese

All sorts except cottage cheese and yoghurt

Chicory

As hot drink (substitute for coffee)

Chocolate beverages

Mostly milk plus sweetened cocoa powder

Coffee

Espresso, instant, from coffee machine, etc.

Crisp bread

Manufactured rusks

Dairy-based sweet puddings

Cream or milk desserts, rice or semolina puddings, ice cream

Egg

Hard-boiled, omelette, and so on

French fries

Homemade, deep-frozen, fast food

Fruit

All fresh and preserved fruits except nuts, olives and juices

Ham^b

Cured and cooked ham

High-alcohol beverages

Spirits, vodka, gin, whisky, aniseed beverages and cocktails

Juices

Home-made or commercial pure fruit juice

Low-alcohol beverages

Beer and cider

Margarine^a

For spread and home cooking

Marmalade, honey

Honey; home-made and commercial jam and marmalade

Meat

Pork, beef, veal, mutton, lamb

Milk

Half-fat, full-fat and semi-skimmed milk

Offal

Liver, kidney, tongue, and so on

Olive oil^a

Added for cooking and dressings

Other fats^a

Goose, duck fat

Pizza, pies

Pizza, savoury tarts and pies

Potatoes

Potatoes, except French fries

Poultry and rabbit

Chicken, turkey, duck, goose and rabbit

Processed meat^b

All except ham (sausages, pâté, and so on)

Pulses

Dried peas, lentils

Rice, pasta, semolina

Rice, pasta, wheat or corn semolina

Sandwiches

Including hamburgers

Seafood

Fish, molluscs and crustaceans

Soup

Soups and broths (homemade or commercial)

Sugar and confectionary

Including chocolate

Soft drinks—diet

Soda and fruit beverages (except pure fruit juice) with artificial sweeteners

Soft drinks—regular

Soda and fruit beverages (except pure fruit juice)

Tap water

Tap water

Tea

As a hot drink

Vegetable oil^a

Added for cooking and dressing, except olive oil

Vegetables

Raw and cooked vegetables

Wine

Wine, champagne

Yoghurt, cottage cheese

Full-fat and low-fat yoghurt and cottage cheese