Foods That Start With P

75 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 75 foods that start with P, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

P is one of the deepest letters for food, with seventy-plus entries. Pizza, pasta, pancake and popcorn are favorites for many children, and fruits like peach, pear, plum and pineapple fill out a whole fruit bowl.

Potato is a powerhouse word, leading to potato chip and potato salad. Pepper and pepperoni share a root, and prune turns out to be a dried plum. Pretzel, pita and porridge give good options for breakfast or snacks. Players in a categories game rarely run out of ideas on this page.

Foods starting with P: 75
Best known: pizza, pie
Longest name: processed cheese

Best-known foods that start with P

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

pizza
pie
pepper
potato
pork
pasta
pumpkin
peach
popcorn
pudding
pineapple
plum
pea
pear
pickle
pancake
porridge
pepperoni
pita
pretzel
prune
potato chip
potato salad
peanut butter
pumpkin pie

All foods that start with P

#	Name	What it is
1	paella	saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken
2	pancake	a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
3	papaya	large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
4	paprika	a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos
5	parsley	aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food
6	passion fruit	egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks
7	pasta	a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
8	pasta salad	a salad having any of various pastas as the base
9	pasta sauce	any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta
10	pastry	any of various baked foods made of dough or batter
11	pasty	small meat pie or turnover
12	pate	liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
13	patty	small pie or pasty
14	pea	seed of a pea plant used for food
15	pea soup	a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree)
16	peach	downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
17	peanut brittle	brittle containing peanuts
18	peanut butter	a spread made from ground peanuts
19	pear	sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
20	pearl barley	barley ground into small round pellets
21	pepper	pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
22	pepper steak	strips of steak sauteed with green peppers and onions
23	peppermint	a candy flavored with peppermint oil
24	pepperoni	a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage)
25	perch	any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
26	pesto	a sauce typically served with pasta
27	petit four	small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake
28	pheasant	flesh of a pheasant; usually braised
29	pickle	vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
30	pickle relish	relish of chopped (usually sweet) pickles
31	pickled herring	herring preserved in a pickling liquid (usually brine or vinegar)
32	pie	dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
33	pie crust	pastry used to hold pie fillings
34	pigeon pea	small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant
35	pike	highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
36	pineapple	large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
37	pinto bean	mottled or spotted bean of southwestern United States; usually dried
38	pita	usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
39	pizza	Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
40	plain flour	flour that does not contain a raising agent
41	plantain	starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
42	plum	any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
43	plum pudding	a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake
44	plum sauce	for Chinese dishes: plum preserves and chutney
45	plum tomato	a kind of cherry tomato that is frequently used in cooking rather than eaten raw
46	poi	Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment
47	pollock	lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
48	pomegranate	large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
49	popcorn	small kernels of corn exploded by heat
50	popcorn ball	popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls
51	poppy seed	small grey seed of a poppy flower; used whole or ground in baked items
52	pork	meat from a domestic hog or pig
53	pork belly	side of fresh pork
54	pork pie	small pie filled with minced seasoned pork
55	pork roast	cut of pork suitable for roasting
56	pork sausage	sausage containing pork
57	porridge	soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
58	pot roast	cut of beef suitable for simmering in liquid in a closed pot
59	potato	an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
60	potato chip	a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
61	potato pancake	made of grated potato and egg with a little flour
62	potato salad	any of various salads having chopped potatoes as the base
63	potato skin	crisp fried potato peeling
64	poultry	flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
65	pound cake	rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour
66	powdered sugar	sugar granulated into a fine powder
67	prawn	any of various edible decapod crustaceans
68	preserves	fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
69	pretzel	glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot
70	processed cheese	made by blending several lots of cheese
71	prune	dried plum
72	pudding	(British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
73	pumpkin	usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
74	pumpkin pie	pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar
75	puree	food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender

Short foods with P

pizza
pie
pork
pasta
peach
plum
pea
pear
pita
prune
pike
patty
perch
pasty
pate
pesto
prawn
puree
poi

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How many foods start with P?

This list has 75 foods starting with P, from well-known ones like pizza, pie, pepper to rarer kinds.

What foods start with P?

Well-known examples are pizza, pie, pepper, potato, pork, pasta, pumpkin, peach.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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