If by 'Banting-friendly' you mean high-protein, high-fat, very-low- or zero-carbohydrate foods, then neither jaggery nor sorghum meet these requirements. Jaggery is a form of non-centrifugal sugar ...

The menu includes starters of roasted butternut or speck ham and lubna salads; other Banting-friendly starters include spiced chicken roulade, creamy garlic mussels, salt and pepper calamari ...

Along with eating it raw in salads, stir-frying it ... use this crunchy veg to bake a tasty low-carb bread? In their book, Banting: 7 Day Meal Plans (Quivertree, R350), authors Rita Venter ...