Consume food – not seriously, you say? (6)

I believe the answer is:

ingest

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

'not seriously you say?' is the wordplay.
'not seriously' becomes 'in jest' (I've seen this before).
'you say?' shows a homophone (sound like).
'injest' is a homophone of 'INGEST'.

(Other definitions for ingest that I've seen before include "Gets in (anag.)" , "Absorb - signet (anag)" , "Swallow, absorb" , "Scoff" , "Consume food" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.

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