The Western pattern diet, also called Western dietary pattern or the meat-sweet diet, is a dietary pattern originally identified through principal components analysis or factor analysis to identify commonly associated foods in the diets of several independent cohorts in the United States, with a very similar "Western" pattern also observed in a cohort of Australian adolescents. It is characterized by higher intakes of was characterized by a higher intake of red and processed meat, butter, high-fat dairy products, eggs, refined grains, white potatoes and french fries, and high-sugar drinks. It is contrasted with a "prudent" diet found in the same populations, which has higher levels of fruits, vegetables, whole-grain foods, poultry and fish.