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Pepperidge Farm
Pepperidge Farm, founded by Margaret Rudkin in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1937, is an American bakery brand owned by The Campbell's Company since 1961, known for Goldfish crackers, Milano cookies, breads, and puff pastry.
Peppermint
Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a sterile hybrid mint, a cross between water mint and spearmint, grown for menthol-rich oil used in flavoring and medicine.
Peppermint (2018 film)
Peppermint is a 2018 American vigilante action thriller directed by Pierre Morel, starring Jennifer Garner as a mother who hunts the cartel that killed her family.
Peppermint (entertainer)
Peppermint (Miss Peppermint), American drag performer, actor, and trans activist; Delaware native and New York club veteran; first runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 (2017) and in 2018 the first trans woman to originate a principal Broadway role, as Pythio in Head Over Heels.
Peppermint Candy (박하사탕)
Peppermint Candy (박하사탕, Bakha satang) is Lee Chang-dong's 1999 South Korean drama, released January 1, 2000, telling factory worker Kim Yong-ho's 1979–1999 life in reverse through seven episodes tied to the Gwangju massacre, 1987 torture, and 1997 crisis.
Peppermint Patty
Peppermint Patty (Patricia Reichardt) is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, first appearing in 1966. She is the strip's standout athlete and a chronically struggling student.
Pepperoni
Pepperoni is an American air-dried salami of pork and beef, seasoned with paprika and pepper, invented by Italian immigrants in the early 1900s; in Italy peperoni means bell peppers, and the sausage is the leading US pizza topping.
Peppertree Capital
Peppertree Capital Management is a digital-infrastructure private equity firm founded in 2004 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, specializing in wireless communication towers; TPG acquired it in 2025.
Peprilus paru
Peprilus paru, the American harvestfish (basionym Stromateus paru), is a deep-bodied western Atlantic butterfish (Stromateidae) from the northeastern USA to Brazil, reaching 36 cm, schooling at 15–136 m and feeding on jellyfish.
Peprilus triacanthus
Peprilus triacanthus, the American or Atlantic butterfish, a small deep-bodied stromateid fish of the northwest Atlantic from Florida to Newfoundland; short-lived, schooling, commercially fished by the U.S., stock not overfished.
Pepscan
Pepscan is a peptide-scanning method, reported by Geysen and colleagues in 1984, that synthesizes overlapping peptides on a solid support to map linear epitopes recognized by antibodies.
Pepsi
Pepsi, first sold as Brad's Drink and renamed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, is a carbonated cola created in 1893 by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern, North Carolina.
Pepsi & Shirlie
Pepsi & Shirlie: English pop duo of Helen "Pepsi" DeMacque and Shirlie Kemp, former Wham! backing singers; hits "Heartache" (UK No. 2, 1987) and "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 9); albums All Right Now (1987) and Change (1991).
Pepsi Battle of the Bands
Pepsi Battle of the Bands is a Pakistani televised band competition created and sponsored by PepsiCo Pakistan, first held in 2002 and revived in 2017 after fifteen years.
Pepsi Globe
Pepsi Globe: the circular red, white, and blue emblem of Pepsi, descended from a 1951 bottle-cap logo, made the brand's primary mark in 1971, named around 1997, redesigned by Arnell Group in 2008 and revived with an internal wordmark in 2023.
Pepsi MTV Indies
Pepsi MTV Indies, also known as MTV Indies, was an Indian pay television channel from Viacom18 broadcasting independent, non-film music around the clock from 2014.
Pepsi Music (Argentina)
Pepsi Music was a multi-day rock and pop music festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, held from 2005 and staged mainly at the Obras stadium, renamed Estadio Pepsi Music.
Pepsi Number Fever
Pepsi Number Fever: 1992 Philippine Pepsi bottle-cap lottery in which the announced winning number 349 appeared on hundreds of thousands of caps, triggering riots, 7,000 lawsuits, a $32 billion potential liability, and a 500-peso settlement.
Pepsi Paloma
Pepsi Paloma (Delia Dueñas Smith, 1966–1985), Filipino 'bold star' actress of the Softdrink Beauties; films Brown Emmanuelle, The Victim, Virgin People; died 31 May 1985, disputed suicide.
Pepsi Twist
Pepsi Twist is a lemon-flavored variant of Pepsi introduced in the United States in 2001, launched in over 70 countries, and later discontinued in the US.
Pepsi Uma
Pepsi Uma, born Uma Maheswari in 1974 in Chennai, is an Indian television presenter who hosted Sun TV's Pepsi Ungal Choice for about 15 years, a Tamil record.
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
Pepsi, Where's My Jet? is a 2022 Netflix docuseries by Andrew Renzi about John Leonard's attempt to redeem 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a Harrier jet and the resulting Leonard v. Pepsico contract case.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo, also called the Pepsi company, is an American multinational food and beverage company formed in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, and headquartered in Purchase, New York.
Pepsiman (ペプシマン) (video game)
Pepsiman (ペプシマン, Pepushiman) is a 1999 action game developed by KID for the Sony PlayStation, in which Pepsi's Japanese superhero mascot runs across the United States delivering Pepsi.
Pepsin
Pepsin (EC 3.4.23.1), also called pepsin A, is the stomach's aspartic protease, activated from pepsinogen at pH 1.5-2, cleaving proteins near aromatic and hydrophobic residues, first protein X-rayed in 1934.
Pepsin catalytic domain
Pepsin catalytic domain: the peptidase unit of pepsin A (MEROPS A01.001, family A1, clan AA), a bilobal aspartic protease domain with Asp32/Asp215 catalytic dyad, water-nucleophile mechanism, and 11-residue active-site flap.
Pepsinogen
Pepsinogen is the inactive proenzyme precursor of pepsin and gastricsin, secreted by stomach chief cells and converted to active enzyme when gastric acid drops pH below 5.
Pepsodent
Pepsodent is a toothpaste brand launched in the United States in 1915, famed for its pioneering advertising and its slogan "You'll wonder where the yellow went."
Pepstatin
Pepstatin, also called pepstatin A, is a pentapeptide natural product from the bacterium Streptomyces testaceus, discovered in 1970, that potently inhibits aspartic proteases including pepsin and cathepsin D.
Peptic cell
Peptic cell, also called gastric chief cell or zymogenic cell: epithelial cell at the base of fundic gastric glands that secretes pepsinogen (activated to pepsin by HCl) and gastric lipase, differentiates from mucous neck cells, and transdifferentiates into SPEM metaplasia when parietal cells are lost.