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Intended food must contain new ingredient (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

meant

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'intended' is the definition.
(meaning is a kind of intending)

'contain new ingredient' is the wordplay.
'contain' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'new' becomes 'n'.
'ingredient' becomes 'meat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'n' going inside 'meat' is 'MEANT'.

'food must' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for meant that I've seen before include "designed" , "Intentional" , "Had as purpose or design" , "Signified" , "Deliberate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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