Snack consumption patterns and their associations with risk of incident metabolic syndrome: Tehran lipid and glucose study

Table 1 Factor loading matrix and explained variances for major snack patterns identified by factor analysis ¹

Snacks	Patterns
	1	2	3	4	5
Nuts	0.444				-0.311
Fruits	0.594		-0.372
Dried fruits	0.525		-0.433
Vegetables	0.431
Fruit juice	0.377				0.437
Cake & cookies			0.429
Soft drink		-0.681		0.321
Coffee & tea			-0.328	0.603
Milk	0.407	-0.627
Desserts					0.480
Sugar		0.323		0.625
Sweets	0.384	0.375	0.338
Chocolate	0.428	0.366
Salty snacks		0.301	0.558
Added sugar fruits	0.302				0.649
Explained variance (%)	13.72	9.96	9.23	8.37	7.22
Cumulative explained variance (%)	13.18	23.69	32.92	41.29	48.51

¹ Principle Component Analysis (PCA) performed on 15 snack group. Snacks with loadings > 0.40 and less than − 0.40 (in bold) are being characteristic for the five patterns; loadings less than 0.3 (in absolute value) are suppressed

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