The Association between Dietary Patterns and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adults

Table 1

Factor analysis varimax-rotated factor loading scores¹ of 30 food groups.

	Vegetables-fruits pattern	Traditional Chinese pattern	Pastry-fruits pattern	Animal food pattern
Rice and rice products	0.02	-0.01	0.02	0.46
Wheat flour and products	0.39	0.20	-0.23	-0.02
Other cereals and products^2	-0.03	0.80	0.21	-0.02
Potato	0.01	0.82	0.03	-0.10
Mixed beans	-0.10	0.16	0.19	0.01
Pastry	0.04	0.14	0.77	0.17
Citrus fruits	0.38	0.20	0.36	-0.05
Kernel fruits	0.34	0.58	0.35	-0.11
Stone fruits	0.37	-0.08	0.46	-0.13
Small fruits, berries	0.04	0.05	0.65	-0.04
Tropical fruits (peel edible)	0.43	-0.25	0.14	0.00
Other fruits^3	0.21	0.28	-0.03	0.37
Solanaceous fruits	0.44	0.15	0.30	0.15
Melon vegetables	0.67	0.14	0.06	0.14
Onion and garlic	0.77	0.03	0.15	0.11
Stem vegetables	0.54	0.13	0.09	0.10
Root vegetables	0.54	0.26	-0.13	0.25
Cabbage vegetables	0.43	0.44	-0.02	0.20
Leafy vegetables	0.12	0.27	0.10	0.10
Pickled vegetables	0.21	0.51	-0.01	0.06
Pork	0.16	-0.01	0.10	0.72
Beef	-0.09	0.13	0.41	0.51
Chicken	0.05	0.06	0.16	0.62
Other meat	0.11	-0.10	-0.06	0.30
Beans and soy products	0.15	0.35	0.04	0.31
Milk and dairy products	0.12	0.03	0.17	-0.01
Aquatic products	0.36	0.23	0.35	0.24
Egg and egg products	0.28	0.16	0.35	0.33
Nuts	0.37	0.34	0.20	0.09
Tea	-0.01	0.04	-0.11	0.37

¹Factor loading greater than ±0.2 is shown in italic. ²Included buckwheat and millet. ³Included sugarcane.