**5. Conclusions**

This study finally identified two dietary patterns through EFA and CFA: the modern dietary pattern and the fruit–milk dietary pattern. The modern dietary pattern characterised by a high intake of red meats was positively associated with high blood glucose among adults in Jiangsu province of China, while the fruit–milk dietary pattern was not significantly associated with high blood glucose.

**Supplementary Materials:** The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https:// www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/nu14194111/s1, Table S1. Food Groupings Used in Factor Analysis, Table S2. Factor Loadings for three Dietary Patterns Derived from Factor Analysis.

**Author Contributions:** Y.W. made interpretation of data and drafted the work; W.X. collected all the samples and drafted the work; T.T., J.Z., Q.Z., D.P., D.X. and Y.L. conducted the experiments and analysed the data; G.S. helped with the experiments; Y.D. designed and supervised the work. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research was funded by the Study of the National Prevention and Control of Major Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases from Major Project of National Key R&D Program (No. 2016YFC1305201) of China, Nanjing Municipal Health Science and Technology Development Special Fund project (No. YKK19123) and Jiangsu Provincial geriatric health scientific research Project: Dietary nutrition evaluation and application of intervention technology for sarcopenia in the elderly (No. LKM 2022005).

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** This study was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki and all procedures involving research study participants were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (approval number: 201519-B, 2014). Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors thank all those who contributed to the physical examination, biochemical and nutritional assessment, and database management.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
