if and xlookup

Hi

I have a data table and looking for a particular item with if an xlookup is true then return a result. But xlookup (just like vlookup) only looks at the first occurrence. So if I am looking for a lookup value that has many different categories, how can I keep looking until I find the one I nominate?

Is there an alternative formula here that will just find the category I'm looking for?

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