Add label to minced food - it's a pound sign (7)
I believe the answer is:
endemic
'sign' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'add label to minced food it's a pound' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'minced' is 'ndemic' which is located in the answer.
'food' could be 'e' (E is an example) and 'e' is found in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for endemic that I've seen before include "Belonging to a particular area" , "(Of disease) widely found in a certain area" , "Prevalent in a district - dice men (anag)" , "Only found in a particular region, or regions" , "(Of disease) regularly found in population" .)