Table 3 Factor loadings of Persian version of food preferences questionnaire (Persian-FPQ).
Extracted factorsa | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vegetables | Fruit | Dairy | Snacks | Meat/fish | Starches | Miscellaneous foods | |
Green pepper | 0.642 | ||||||
Garlic | 0.630 | ||||||
Cabbage (such as cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts) | 0.615 | ||||||
Celery | 0.613 | ||||||
Onion | 0.593 | ||||||
Turnip | 0.582 | ||||||
Broccoli | 0.579 | ||||||
Beetroot | 0.575 | ||||||
Bell pepper | 0.568 | ||||||
Red peppers | 0.561 | ||||||
Green beans | 0.553 | ||||||
Peas | 0.543 | ||||||
Spinach | 0.531 | ||||||
Mushrooms | 0.494 | ||||||
Carrots | 0.443 | ||||||
Salad leaves (e.g. lettuce) | 0.424 | ||||||
Raw tomatoes | 0.422 | ||||||
Tomato paste | 0.421 | ||||||
Corn | 0.344 | ||||||
Cucumber | 0.284 | 0.283 | |||||
Apricots | 0.707 | ||||||
Cherry | 0.654 | ||||||
Yellow plum | 0.625 | ||||||
Tangerine | 0.610 | ||||||
Pomegranate | 0.593 | ||||||
Peaches | 0.590 | ||||||
Grape | 0.581 | ||||||
Sour cherry | 0.528 | ||||||
Sweet lemon | 0.497 | ||||||
Oranges | 0.495 | ||||||
Dew melon | 0.484 | ||||||
Mulberry | 0.480 | ||||||
Cantaloup | 0.470 | ||||||
Kiwi | 0.459 | ||||||
Strawberries | 0.452 | ||||||
Watermelon | 0.448 | ||||||
Apples | 0.431 | ||||||
Fig | 0.424 | ||||||
Melon | 0.404 | ||||||
Persimmon | 0.382 | ||||||
Sour green plum | 0.350 | ||||||
Cream | 0.605 | ||||||
Plain low-fat milk | 0.540 | ||||||
Plain full fat milk | 0.512 | ||||||
Porridge | 0.509 | ||||||
other types of milk (such as cocoa milk, banana milk, carrot milk, coconut milk, …) | 0.477 | ||||||
Butter | 0.424 | ||||||
Rice-pudding (rice-milk) | 0.413 | ||||||
Plain biscuits | 0.385 | 0.328 | |||||
Eggs (boiled, scrambled or fried) | 0.366 | 0.363 | |||||
Yogurt | 0.347 | ||||||
Haleem | 0.344 | ||||||
Cheese | 0.334 | ||||||
Salty snacks (such as puffs, chips, crisps) | 0.632 | ||||||
Chocolate | 0.620 | ||||||
Ketchup | 0.567 | ||||||
Chocolate biscuits | 0.558 | ||||||
Mayonnaise | 0.552 | ||||||
Ice cream | 0.527 | ||||||
Cake | 0.523 | ||||||
Chewable jelly chocolates (such as pastilles, jelly dragees) | 0.513 | ||||||
Sausages | 0.447 | ||||||
Chips | 0.383 | ||||||
Cream cheese (such as mascarpone cheese) | 0.284 | ||||||
Fatty fish (such as salmon, salmon, sardines, mackerel) | 0.707 | ||||||
Low-fat fish (such as kilka fish, milk fish, shourideh, halva, serkhu, tilapia) | 0.673 | ||||||
Beef burgers | 0.615 | ||||||
Smoked salmon | 0.611 | ||||||
Lamb | 0.606 | ||||||
White meat burger (chicken-fish) | 0.578 | ||||||
Beef | 0.570 | ||||||
Chicken | 0.531 | ||||||
Tinned Tuna | 0.529 | ||||||
Ham | 0.353 | ||||||
Wholemeal baguette bread | 0.522 | ||||||
Baguette bread without bran (such as hamburger bread) | 0.483 | ||||||
Plain boiled rice | 0.467 | ||||||
Traditional bread without bran (such as lavash bread, tufton bread, berberi bread) | 0.459 | ||||||
Traditional wholemeal bread (like Sangak) | 0.457 | ||||||
Rice and beans | 0.449 | ||||||
Bran cereal (such as wheat bran or rice bran) | 0.397 | ||||||
Breakfast cereal | 0.368 | ||||||
Potatoes (boiled or mashed) | 0.349 | ||||||
Baked legumes (such as lentils, beans, chickpeas, mung beans and cobs) | 0.300 | ||||||
Avocadoes | 0.607 | ||||||
Margarine | 0.573 | ||||||
Custard | 0.546 | ||||||
Other cheeses (such as Parmesan cheese, mozzarella, blue cheese, Camembert, Gouda) | 0.472 | ||||||
Grapefruit | 0.366 | ||||||
Parsnips | 0.317 | ||||||
Variance explained (%) | 8.17 | 7.46 | 5.20 | 4.85 | 4.74 | 4.45 | 2.96 |
