The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CHICORY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result CHICORY
- Marx on track for coffee substitute
- Stylish plant? Fact dismissed in plant
- Marx pulled up your plant
- Salad ingredient for fashionable party person short of time
- It’s a choice between sophisticated and Yankee coffee substitute
- Coffee substitute trendy at first or trendy at last
- Leaves trendy gold jewellery at last
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The straight part
We know that "Salad ingredient" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case salad ingredient = chicory.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CHICORY mean?
CHICORY noun- Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
- A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.