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Polish cuisine
Polish cuisine (kuchnia polska) is Poland's national culinary tradition of grain dishes, soups, fermented vegetables, mushrooms, and meats, with icons like pierogi, bigos, żurek, and kotlet schabowy, shaped by Italian, French, German, Jewish, and Eastern influences and strong regional diversity.
Polo (confectionery)
Polo is a ring-shaped mint brand, "the mint with the hole", launched by Rowntree's on 15 April 1948 and made since at Nestlé's York factory; variants include Original, Spearmint, Fruits, and Sugar Free mints approved by the Oral Health Foundation.
Polyglycerol polyricinoleate
Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR, E 476, INS 476) is a synthetic water-in-oil food emulsifier made from polyglycerol and condensed castor oil fatty acids, used mainly to lower the yield stress of molten chocolate; EFSA set an ADI of 25 mg/kg bw per day in 2017.
Pop Rocks
Pop Rocks is the original popping candy brand, hard candy gasified with carbon dioxide at about 600 psi, invented in 1956 by General Foods chemist William A. Mitchell and sold since the mid-1970s, now owned by Zeta Espacial.
Pop-Tarts
Pop-Tarts: Kellogg's (now Kellanova) shelf-stable toaster pastry launched September 1964 in Cleveland in four unfrosted flavors, developed by Bill Post's team in about four months and named after the Pop Art movement.
Popcorn Sutton
Popcorn Sutton (Marvin Sutton, 1946–2009) was an Appalachian moonshiner of Maggie Valley, NC and Cocke County, TN, author of Me and My Likker, subject of The Last One, and namesake of a legal whiskey brand.
Poppi (drink)
Poppi (stylized poppi) is an American prebiotic soda brand founded as Mother Beverage by Allison Ellsworth in 2015, rebranded after a 2018 Shark Tank investment by Rohan Oza, and acquired by PepsiCo in 2025 for $1.95 billion; it has no more than 5g sugar per can.
Poppy O'Toole
Poppy O'Toole, known as Poppy Cooks and the Potato Queen, is an English Michelin-trained chef (born 1994) whose viral TikTok potato recipes, including crispy parmesan roasties and 15-hour potatoes, led to six Bloomsbury cookbooks and TV judging on BBC Three's Young MasterChef.
Poppy tea
Poppy tea, or poppy seed tea, is a homemade opioid drink made by rinsing unwashed Papaver somniferum seeds in cold water or lemon juice. FDA reports 11 deaths, variable morphine content, and a planned 2026 action level.
Porchetta
Porchetta is an Italian whole deboned pig or suckling pig seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, rosemary, or wild fennel, tied and roasted whole; a central Italian street food, with Porchetta di Ariccia holding EU PGI status since 2011.
Pork
Pork is meat from the domesticated pig, independently domesticated from wild boar in Eastern and Western Eurasia. It has been the world's most widely eaten meat since the Roman Empire, counts as red meat nutritionally, and is forbidden in Jewish and Islamic law.
Pork belly
Pork belly (liempo, 삼겹살 cut) is the fatty hog side left after loin and spareribs removal, 40–50% fat, cured into bacon or pancetta and grilled or braised across Korean, Filipino, Chinese, and other cuisines.
Pork chop
Pork chop: a loin cut of pork sliced perpendicular to the spine, sold as rib, loin, blade, sirloin, porterhouse, or T-bone chops; cooked to 145°F with a 3-minute rest and safe when pink at temperature.
Pork pie
Pork pie: British cold pie of chopped pork and jelly in hot water crust pastry; the Melton Mowbray variant (PGI, uncured grey pork, 30% minimum meat) is its protected regional form.
Pork ribs
Pork ribs are cuts from the pig's rib cage: baby back ribs from the loin, spareribs and St. Louis cut from the belly, plus rib tips and country-style. USDA safe temperature is 145 degrees F with a 3-minute rest; slow cooking melts collagen into gelatin.
Pork rind
Pork rind, also called chicharrón, cracklin, or pork scratching, is dehydrated pork skin deep-fried until puffy and crisp. High-protein, zero-carb snack; U.S. sales near $273 million in 2018.
Pork roll
Pork roll, also called Taylor ham, is a smoked, cured processed pork loaf from Trenton, New Jersey, created by John Taylor in 1856, renamed under the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, and eaten as the state's signature pork roll, egg, and cheese sandwich.
Pork tenderloin
Pork tenderloin (filet de porc, solomillo de cerdo) is the lean, boneless psoas muscle of the pork loin, weighing ¾–1½ lb, cooked by dry heat to 145°F with a 3-minute rest.
Porridge
Porridge, called oatmeal in North America, is a thick hot cereal made by boiling oats or other grains in water or milk; known regionally as congee, kanji, and dakjuk, with Neolithic origins and beta-glucan fiber linked to heart health.
Port wine
Port wine (vinho do Porto) is a Portuguese fortified wine from the Douro Demarcated Region, made by adding aguardente to stop fermentation, 18-22% alcohol; world's oldest demarcated wine region, styles include Ruby, Tawny, Vintage, LBV, Colheita.
Porter (beer)
Porter is a dark, well-hopped beer style that developed from London brown beer around 1720, named for the porters who drank it. It powered the first industrial-scale breweries, spawned stout as a stronger variant, declined after World War I, and revived in craft brewing.
Portillo's Restaurants
Portillo's Restaurants: Chicago-area fast-casual chain founded in 1963 by Dick Portillo as 'The Dog House' in Villa Park, Illinois, with $1,100; now over 100 restaurants in 11 states, Nasdaq-listed as PTLO, known for Italian beef and Chicago-style hot dogs.
Portuguese cuisine
Portuguese cuisine: the national cooking of Portugal, Mediterranean in base and Atlantic in fish, built on bacalhau, azeite, cozido à portuguesa, regional dishes from caldo verde to cataplana, convent sweets, and cod cooked in hundreds of ways.
Posset
Posset: historic British drink of milk curdled with wine, ale, or citrus, sweetened and spiced; layered grace, custard, and alcohol; obsolete by 1800, revived as lemon posset dessert.
Post Consumer Brands
Post Consumer Brands, Post Foods + MOM Brands merger (2015), Lakeville, Minnesota-based Post Holdings subsidiary making cereal (Honey Bunches of Oats, Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal), Peter Pan peanut butter, and Nutrish, 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits pet food; #3 in US RTE cereal.
Postum
Postum is a caffeine-free instant roasted-grain beverage of wheat, wheat bran, and molasses, invented by C.W. Post in Battle Creek in 1895, discontinued by Kraft in 2007, and revived in 2012 by Eliza's Quest Foods; its wheat base contains gluten and its Matcha flavor contains caffeine.
Pot roast
Pot roast is an American beef dish, also called Yankee pot roast in its New England vegetable version: a tough cut such as chuck or brisket browned, then braised slowly in a covered pot with a little liquid until tender, an Americanism in print since 1881.
Pot-au-feu
Pot-au-feu, French "pot on the fire," is the traditional French boiled beef and vegetable stew, broth served first, meat second; national dish of France, attested from the 17th century.
Potassium sorbate
Potassium sorbate (E202, INS 202), the potassium salt of sorbic acid (C6H7KO2, CAS 24634-61-5), is a widely used preservative inhibiting yeasts and molds, effective at acidic pH, GRAS in the US and authorized in the EU.
Potato chips
Potato chips, or crisps, thin fried or baked potato slices popularized as Saratoga chips from 1853; low-sugar varieties like Atlantic, acrylamide mitigation, and US per capita use of 18.1 lb distinguish the snack.