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It blends with some lamb in your food processor (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

metabolism

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'it blends with some lamb in your food processor' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'it blends with some lamb' is the wordplay.
'blends with' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'blended' mean this).
'some'+'lamb'='somelamb'
'it' with its letters mixed up with 'somelamb' gives 'METABOLISM'.

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(Other definitions for metabolism that I've seen before include "it's what keeps him going" , "Vital chemical processes in a living organism - mobile ATMs (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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