Cocktail ingredients (7)
I believe the answer is:
shrimps
'cocktail ingredients' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'cocktail ingredients' is the wordplay.
'cocktail' becomes 'shrimp cocktail' (shrimp cocktail is a kind of cocktail).
'ingredients' becomes 's' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'shrimp'+'s'='SHRIMPS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for shrimps that I've seen before include "Seafood; puny people" , "Sea creatures" , "Small edible crustaceans" .)