Dietary patterns and associated factors of schooling Ghanaian adolescents

Table 2 Dietary patterns of participating pupils

Food items	Dietary patterns with factor loadings		Communalities
Food items	Sweet tooth	Traditional	Communalities
Milk and milk products	.801	.087	.648
Fruits and fruit juice	.756	.251	.635
Meat, poultry, and eggs	.749	.153	.584
Energy and soft drinks	.684	.206	.510
Tubers and plantain	.636	.243	.464
Sugared snacks	.626	.293	.478
Sweets	.605	.307	.460
Fats, oils, and fat-based foods	.587	.377	.486
Tea and coffee	.574	.056	.332
Fish and seafood	− .077	.747	.564
Nuts, seeds, and legumes	.287	.740	.630
Local sugared beverages	.420	.540	.467
Vegetables	.203	.524	.316
Cereals and grains	.411	.457	.378
% of variance explained	32.516	17.156
% of accumulated variance explained	49.672

Extraction method, principal component analysis. Rotation method, varimax with Kaiser normalization. Italic factor loadings are items contributing significantly to each PCA component

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