Gender, Age, Geographical Area, Food Neophobia and Their Relationships with the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet: New Insights from a Large Population Cross-Sectional Study.

The correlation between food items/categories and ITMI was positive and highly significant ( p < 0.0001, except for dairy p < 0.01) for pasta, vegetables, fruit, legumes, fish, EVOO, and dairy products; while it was negative and significant for potato, butter, soft drinks, red/cured meat, and sweets with Pearson’s coefficients ranging from 0.10 (dairy) to 0.49 (vegetables) and from −0.20 (potato) to −0.41 (soft drinks) for positive and negative correlations, respectively.

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