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Trust article on European food (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

polenta

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'food' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'trust article on european' is the wordplay.
'trust' becomes 'nt' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'european' becomes 'Pole' (someone from Poland).
'nt'+'a'='nta'
'nta' after 'pole' is 'POLENTA'.

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(Other definitions for polenta that I've seen before include "Italian dish of maize flour" , "Fine yellow cornmeal" , "Maize flour dough" , "Cornmeal -- on plate (anag)" , "Italian porridge usually of maize" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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