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Table 2 Food groups used in the analyses of dietary pattern

From: Empirically derived dietary pattern and odds of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases in overweight and obese adults: a case–control study

Food groups

Food items

Processed meats

Sausages

Red meats

Lamb meat, veal meat, minced meat

Organ meats

Lamb(liver, kidneys, heart, tongue, brain, stomach, kidney, foot)

Fish

Fish, tuna

Poultry

Chicken with skin, chicken without skin

Eggs

Eggs

Low fat dairy product and milk

Dough, low fat yoghurt, low fat milk, cheese, high fat milk,, chocolate milk, flavored Milk

High fat dairy product

High fat yogurt, ordinary yogurt, creamy yogurt, cream cheese, cream, Industrial and traditional ice cream, curd

Tea coffee

Tea, coffee

Fruit

Apples, cherries, apricots, plums, fresh figs, dry figs, kiwi, strawberries, grapes, fresh berries, dry berries, dates, barberries, bananas, pomegranates, Peach, nylon, cantaloupe, melon, pear, nectarine, green tomato, grapefruit, orange, persimmon, tangerine, cherry, sweet lemon, sour lemon, watermelon, raisin, fresh pineapple, dried peach and apricot

Fruit juice

Grapefruit juice, orange juice, apple juice, cantaloupe juice

Other vegetables

Pumpkin, zucchini, green cucumber, eggplant, celery, green peas, green beans, okra, raw onions, turnips, beets, cooked mushrooms, corn, fresh vegetables, stewed vegetables, raw and cooked carrots, cabbage ketchup, tomato sauce, tomato, spinach, lettuce, garlic, cooked potatoes, black pepper, fried onions

Fast food

hamburger, fried potatoes, pizza

Whole grain

Sangak, Taftoon, Corno, oat bread,biscuit with bran

Refined grain

Bread (Lavash, Baguette, Barbari, Toast, dried), rice, flour, barley, noodles and vermicelli, macaroni, biscuit

snacks

Chips and puffs

Nuts

Peanuts, almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, seeds

Vegetables oil

Liquid oil, olive oil, olives

Sweete dessert

Noghl, pirashki, qotab, baqlava, loz, pashmak, hajibadam1, nan_berenji, Sohan (Iranian sweets), chocolates, caramel cream, cookies, Fresh sweets, dry sweets, halva, arde, halva arde, Yazdi Cake, cakes, candy, Jelly, honey, jam, lemon juice, canned pineapple, compote fruits, lemon juice

Hydrogenated fats

Animal fat, solid oil, mayonaise, Fat, cream, butter, margarine, broth

Sugars

Sugar, ghand, nabat, gaz (Iranian sweet)

Soft drink

Soft drinks

Pickles

Salinity cucumber, mixed vegetable pickles, salt

Legumes

green peas, lentils, beans, chickpeas, soybeans, split peasو broad bean, mung bean, cotyledon