Research Article

Dietary Pattern and Metabolic Syndrome in Thai Adults

Table 6

Food groups and food items from the food frequency questionnaire.

Food groupsFood items

Meat Lean pork/beef, chicken/duck without skin
Fatty meat Meat with fat, chicken/duck with skin, streaky pork
Processed meat with high fat Processed meat high in fat, that is, sausage, Thai style sausage, Chinese sausage, sour sausage, bacon, ham, Vietnamese ham
Processed meat with high salt Processed meat high in salt, that is, meat floss, salted fish, salted sun-dried beef/pork/fish
Fish Fresh-water fish, salt-water fish, and so forth
Shellfish and squid Crustacean and mollusk seafood, that is, shrimp, crab, squid, clam, and so forth
Animal organLiver, blood jelly, intestine, gizzard, and so forth
Egg Egg
Beans Beans and its products, that is, mung bean, soybean, peanut, tofu, Kaset protein
Rice Polished rice
Wheat Whole wheat, whole grain bread
Glutinous rice Sticky rice
Fried food Fried pork, fried chicken, friend banana, friend potato, fried meat ball, fish cake, and so forth
Food with coconut milk Any dishes cooked with coconut milk, that is, spicy curry with coconut milk, green beef curry with coconut milk, and so forth
Fermented fish/soybeanCondiment of fermented fish, southern style fish sauce, Thai style fermented soybean, and so forth
Chili sauce/dipThai dipping sauce, that is, roasted chili paste, shrimp paste sauce, green chili dip, fermented fish spicy dip
Fruit Fresh fruits, that is, orange, banana, guava, ripe papaya, pineapple, longan, watermelon, sugar apple, grapes, rambutan
Milk Milk
Soy milk Soy milk
Beverage Soda beverage
Bamboo shoots Bamboo shoots
Vegetables Chinese kale, cauliflower, cabbage, ivy gourd, sponge gourd, Thai water morning glory, green onion