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.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'cocktail ingredients' is the wordplay.
'cocktail' becomes 'shrimp cocktail' (shrimp cocktail is a kind of cocktail).
'ingredients' becomes 's' (I can't explain this - if you can 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" .)