Healthier Banana Bread
crazyforcrust.com · 2023 · 10 servings
Against 708 banana bread recipes
Less fat than 92% of recipes and less sugar than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 92% of recipes: 5.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 45%, under a third as much.
- Less sugar than 88% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%, about half as much.
- Less leavening than 76% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.5%.
- No dairy at all, where 54% of recipes use some (most of those 25 to 60% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (12)
- ½ cup (100g) granulated sugar100 g
- ⅓ cup (79ml) unsweetened applesauce≈ 85 g
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) vegetable oil≈ 14 g
- 3 medium tired bananas (brown spotted)≈ 354 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar or lemon juice≈ 4.9 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 7 tablespoons unsweetened vanilla almond milk or nonfat milk≈ 88 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 cup (124g) all-purpose flour124 g
- 1 cup (124g) whole wheat flour124 g
- ½ cup (90g) mini chocolate chips (optional)90 g
flour 248 gbatter 1093 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.
- Banana143% · 47th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar40% · 11th percentile · median 78%
- Fat5.5% · 7th percentile · median 45%
- Egg40% · 53rd percentile · median 40%
- Dairy0% · 23rd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening2.4% · 19th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt1.2% · 62nd percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 to 55 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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