Brazil perhaps welcomes cut in French food (9)
I believe the answer is:
nutriment
'food' is the definition.
(I know that nutriment is a type of food)
'brazil perhaps welcomes cut in french' is the wordplay.
'brazil perhaps' becomes 'nut' (brazil is a kind of nut).
'welcomes' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'invites in').
'cut' becomes 'trim' (synonyms).
'in french' becomes 'en' ('in' in French).
'trim'+'en'='trimen'
'nut' placed around 'trimen' is 'NUTRIMENT'.
(Other definitions for nutriment that I've seen before include "Nourishing food" , "diet" , "Sustenance, nourishment" , "Material providing food" , "It sustains" .)