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Table 1 Food groups used in the dietary pattern analysis

From: Dietary patterns and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Food groups

Food items

Processed meats

Sausage, kielbasa

Red meats

Lamb, beef, ground meat

Organ meats

Lamb-tongue, (beef) lamb-brain, (beef) lamb tripe, meat of sheep's head, leg, lamb, liver, heart and kidney. (beef)

Fish

Fish, canned fish

Skinless poultry

Chicken no skin

Poultry-skin

Chicken with skin

Eggs

Egg

Low fat dairy

Low fat milk, without fat milk, yogurt, dried whey, cheese

High fat dairy

Milk high fat, cocoa milk, chocolate milk, Yogurt-plain-whole milk, cream, ice cream cheese-cream

Yogurt drink

Dough

Soft drink

Soft drink

Tea

Tea

Coffee

Coffee

Fruits

Cantaloupe, melon, watermelon, pear, apricot, cherry, apple, peach, nectarine, plum, fig, grape, kiwi, grapefruit, orange, persimmon, tangerine, pomegranate, date, black cherry, strawberry, banana, sweet lemon, lemon cranberry, pineapple, raisin, mulberry

Natural juices

Grapefruit juice, orange juice, apple juice, melonjuice

Canned fruits

Canned fruits, canned pineapple

Dried fruits

Dried fig, dried peach, dried apricot, dried mulberry

Vegetables

Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, fines herbs, pot-herb, Pumpkin, squash, eggplant, celery, pea, string bean, raw carrot, cookedcarrot, raw onion, fried onion, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet peppers, rawspinach, cooked spinach, turnip, cooked mushrooms, maize

Nuts

Seeds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds. (pumpkin, sunflower, watermelon)

Legumes

Lentils, beans, chickpea, broad bean, soya, bean-mung, Pea

Whole grains

Dark breads (bavaria, sangak, tafton), cookedbarley, oat

Refined grains

White breads (lavash, baguettes), toast, rice, Spaghetti, vermicelli, pasta, wheat flour, biscuits

Fast foods

Fried potato, hamburger, pizza

Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise

Tomato sauce

Tomato sauce

Salty snacks

Crackers, cheese puffs, chips

Olive

Olive seed, olive oil

Sugar-sweets-desserts

Cake, sugar, honey, Jam, sugar, sweets, gaz (an Iranian confectionery made of sugar, nuts, andtamarisk), candy, sohan (an Iranian confectionery), chocolate, caramel, halva (kind of sweetmeat), donut

Hydrogenated fats

Solid oil, fat animal, animal oil, butter, margarine

Vegetable oils

(Except for olive oil) vegetable oil

Potato

Cooked potato

Garlic

Garlic

Condiments

Juice lime, black pepper

Salt

Salt

Pickles

Pickles

Broth

Broth