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Potato pancake
Potato pancake: a thin flat fried cake of potato, flour, and egg, known as latkes, Kartoffelpuffer, draniki, placki ziemniaczane, boxty, and gamjajeon; grated or mashed potato base, spread across Central and Eastern Europe after the potato's 19th-century adoption.
Potato salad
Potato salad (Kartoffelsalat) is boiled potatoes with a dressing, from German vinegar, broth, or mayo versions to American mayonnaise salad; oldest known recipe is Austrian, 1621.
Poultry Products
Poultry products are foods manufactured from poultry, including raw carcasses, cuts, nuggets, patties, and canned items. Regulated by USDA's Poultry Products Inspection Act (1957) and graded A, B, C; US sector sales $81.7 billion in 2025.
Pound cake
Pound cake, also called quatre-quarts, is a dense butter cake named for its original one pound each of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, first documented in 1747 England and traditionally leavened only by beaten egg.
Poutine
Poutine is a Québécois fast-food dish of french fries topped with fresh cheese curds and hot brown gravy, created in Centre-du-Québec around 1957 at Warwick and 1964 at Drummondville, and now a national Canadian dish.
Powdered sugar
Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, or 10x sugar, is granulated cane or beet sugar ground to a fine powder with about 3-5% cornstarch anticaking agent; used for icings, glazes, and dusting.
Powerade
Powerade is The Coca-Cola Company's isotonic sports drink, introduced in 1988 and launched in the US in 1992 to rival Gatorade; reformulated with 50% more electrolytes, sold in 80 countries, and official sports drink of FIFA World Cup 2026, Team USA, and MLS.
Pozole
Pozole (posole) is a Mexican hominy soup of nixtamalized cacahuazintle corn simmered with pork or chicken, in white, red, and green regional varieties, finished at the table with lettuce, radish, onion, oregano, chile, and lime, and eaten at September independence festivities.
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (प्रधानमंत्री गरीब कल्याण अन्न योजना)
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY, प्रधानमंत्री गरीब कल्याण अन्न योजना) is India's free food grain scheme under NFSA 2013: launched April 2020 as COVID relief giving 5 kg extra grain monthly to ~80 crore beneficiaries, renamed in 2023 for free NFSA distribution, and extended five years to December 2028 with ₹11.80 lakh crore outlay.
Pradhan Mantri Matri Vandana Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is India's national maternity benefit scheme, launched 1 January 2017 under the NFSA 2013, paying ₹5,000 via DBT for a first child and ₹6,000 for a second girl child under Mission Shakti's PMMVY 2.0.
Prairie oyster
Prairie oyster: a nonalcoholic hangover-remedy drink of raw egg with intact yolk, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, vinegar, salt, and pepper, first printed by Leo Engel in 1878; also means cooked bull calf testicles.
Praline
Praline, from French praslin, names three distinct confections: French caramelized nuts and praliné paste, Belgian filled chocolates since Neuhaus 1912, and the soft cream-and-pecan New Orleans patty.
Prawn cracker
Prawn cracker (krupuk udang, keropok udang, bánh phồng tôm, kropeck): a Southeast Asian deep-fried snack of tapioca starch, shrimp and seasonings, steamed, sliced, dried, and puffed in hot oil; Codex protein grades and Thai market size distinguish it.
Preserved Food
Preserved food: treated to resist spoilage via drying, salting, fermentation, canning (Appert, 1795 prize), refrigeration, freeze-drying, and irradiation; water activity 0.85 pathogen cutoff.
Pret a Manger
Pret a Manger (Pret), British sandwich and coffee chain founded in London in 1986 by Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham; shop-kitchen same-day food, organic arabica coffee, Club Pret £5/month drink subscription, 717 shops in 20 markets, £1.2bn 2024 system sales.
Pretzel
Pretzel (German Brezel/Brezn): knotted alkaline-dipped bread from southern Germany; soft lye bread or hard snack; 3–5% NaOH bath, Bavarian vs Swabian styles, EU-protected Bayerische Breze, $2.9B US market.
Pretzel sticks
Pretzel sticks: straight-rod form of hard pretzel, extruded, lye-dipped (1.25% NaOH, 90-93°C), baked; Pennsylvania-centered US industry, $2.75B category, 1,240 mg sodium per 100 g.
Prime (drink)
Prime (drink) is a beverage brand founded in 2022 by Logan Paul and KSI, sold as caffeine-free Prime Hydration and caffeinated Prime Energy with 200 mg caffeine per 12-oz can, known for viral influencer marketing and youth-safety controversy.
Pringles
Pringles: American stackable saddle-shaped potato crisps in a tubular can, launched by Procter & Gamble in 1968. Inventors Baur, Liepa, Wolfe. Owned by Kellogg 2012, Kellanova, then Mars since December 2025. Over 160 flavors, sold in 140+ countries.
Processed cheese
Processed cheese: cheese melted and emulsified with salts like sodium citrate or phosphate into a shelf-stable, non-ripening product. Invented in Switzerland 1911; patented by James L. Kraft in 1916; includes cheese food and spread grades.
Processed Food
Processed food: any raw agricultural commodity altered by washing, heating, canning, freezing, packaging, and similar procedures; graded by the NOVA system into four groups, with ultra-processed foods (UPF) linked in cohort studies to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
Processed meat
Processed meat: meat transformed by salting, curing, fermentation, or smoking for flavor or preservation (hot dogs, ham, sausages, jerky). IARC Group 1 carcinogen; 50 g daily raises colorectal cancer risk about 18%.
Profiterole
Profiterole: a small filled pastry of puffed choux pastry (pâte à choux), classically filled with Chantilly cream or vanilla ice cream and coated in hot chocolate sauce; 16th-century French word from profit, related to cream puffs, éclairs, and croquembouche.
Prohibition in Canada
Prohibition in Canada was the banning of alcohol sales by most provinces, mostly from 1915 to the late 1920s, with a federal ban from 1918 to 1920. It was replaced by government-controlled liquor monopolies.
Proofing (baking technique)
Proofing (proving, final proof) is the final rise of shaped yeast dough before baking, distinct from bulk fermentation. Typical conditions: 28–30 °C, 75–85% RH, 30–90 minutes; readiness judged by the poke test, with under- and over-proofing symptoms.
Propitious Mango ice cream
Propitious Mango ice cream (Hong Qi Propitious) is a Chinese mango-shaped frozen dessert with a white chocolate shell and creamy mango filling that went viral on TikTok, sold in Asian supermarkets and later H-E-B.
Prosciutto
Prosciutto, Italian dry-cured raw ham from a pig's hind leg, preserved with salt and air; Prosciutto di Parma PDO (14 months minimum, Ducal Crown mark) and Prosciutto di San Daniele (pressed, foot kept) are the leading protected varieties.
Prosecco
Prosecco, also Glera-based Italian sparkling wine, is made by tank (Charmat) fermentation in Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia; Prosecco DOC topped 667 million bottles in 2025, with Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG as its historic heart.
Prue Leith
Dame Prue Leith (born 1940, Cape Town) is a South African-born British restaurateur, cookery writer and novelist, founder of Leith's restaurant and cookery school, Bake Off judge 2017–2025, and Dame Commander (2021).
Pu pu platter
Pu pu platter (pupu, pu-pu): an American Chinese and Hawaiian appetizer sampler, from Hawaiian pū-pū; earliest documented menu Trader Vic's Honolulu 1950s, first press mention Luau 400, 1957.