And food that will stick in the throat, and painful torment
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and food) the zaqqum (which choketh (the partaker), and a painful doom) whose pain will extend to their hearts.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and a food that chokes, one that causes the throat to choke, and this is [either] zaqqūm [cf. q. 44:43], darī‘ [cf. q. 88:6], ghislīn [cf. q. 69:36] or thorns of fire, which can neither be vomited nor ingested, and a painful chastisement, in addition to the [punishment] mentioned, for those who deny the prophet (s),