Get information from people on a food item (7)
I believe the answer is:
pumpkin
'a food item' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'get information from people' is the wordplay.
'get information' becomes 'pump' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'from' says to put letters next to each other.
'people' becomes 'kin' (I've seen this in other clues).
'pump'+'kin'='PUMPKIN'
'on' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pumpkin that I've seen before include "Large orange fruit of the squash family" , "Large variety of squash" , "big, yellow, and round" , "Large fruit with many seeds" , "Halloween vegetable" .)