Breakfast banana bread
Lulu Grimes · bbcgoodfood.com · 2026 · 0
Against 708 banana bread recipes
More egg than 99% of recipes and more banana than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 99% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More banana than 89% of recipes: 236% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- More leavening than 94% of recipes: 6.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.5%, about twice as much.
- No salt at all, where 80% of recipes use some (most of those 0.6 to 1.6% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (8)
- 4 very ripe bananas (fresh or frozen)≈ 472 g
- 200g light brown soft sugar200 g
- 130ml neutral oil plus extra for the tin≈ 120 g
- 4 eggs≈ 200 g
- 200g white spelt flour200 g
- 1 tsp ground ginger≈ 2.6 g
- 3 tsp baking powder≈ 14 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- melted chocolate of your choice, for drizzling (optional)n/a
flour 200 gbatter 1208 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.
- Banana236% · 91st percentile · median 148%
- Sugar100% · 80th percentile · median 78%
- Fat60% · 82nd percentile · median 45%
- Egg100% · 100th percentile · median 40%
- Dairy0% · 23rd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening6.9% · 95th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 40 to 50 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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