The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TRUFFLE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result TRUFFLE
- Fungus beginning to taint nettle
- Female chef, ultimately limited by time restriction, serves delicacy
- Starts on forbidden fruit, lacking in authentic luxury food
- Time to put out chocolate?
- Start to treat disorder with fungus
- Mycologist’s last to put out fungus
- Fretful about fungus
- Fungus is to irritate after short time
- Kind of shirt with a frill — that’s tasty
- Pig out, finding this food
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What does TRUFFLE mean?
TRUFFLE noun- A confection having a center of ganache and an outer coating of powdered cocoa or chocolate.
- Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.