Healthy Banana Bread Recipe
aspicyperspective.com · 2025 · 12 servings (1 loaf)
Against 708 banana bread recipes
No fat, unlike 92% of recipes and more salt than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No fat at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 34 to 55% of the flour weight).
- More salt than 98% of recipes: 3.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about 3 times as much.
- More banana than 83% of recipes: 215% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- More dairy than 88% of recipes: 62% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 15%, about 4 times as much.
Ingredients (9)
- 3-4 very ripe bananas (1 ½ - 1 ¾ cups smashed banana)≈ 413 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- ½ cup cottage cheese (or plain Greek yogurt)≈ 119 g
- 1/3 cup honey (or maple syrup)≈ 113 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 ½ cups whole wheat flour≈ 192 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
flour 192 gbatter 956 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 708 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Banana215% · 84th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar59% · 28th percentile · median 78%
- Fat0% · 4th percentile · median 45%
- Egg52% · 76th percentile · median 40%
- Dairy62% · 89th percentile · median 15%
- Leavening3.1% · 40th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt3.1% · 99th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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