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Variant of a dose that can taste salty (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

seafood

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'variant of a dose that can taste salty' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'variant of a dose' is the wordplay.
'variant' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'variant of' mean this).
'of'+'a'+'dose'='ofadose'
'ofadose' is an anagram of 'SEAFOOD'.

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(Other definitions for seafood that I've seen before include "Shellfish, marine fish" , "The "surf" of a surf 'n' turf dish" , "Eaten fish and shellfish" , "Edible fish, shellfish etc from the oceans" , "Such as prawns, tuna" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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