Banana bread over time
611 of the 708 recipes carry a publication date, from 2002 to 2026. Below: how many pages each year, whether the typical loaf changed between the oldest and newest, and the oldest and newest pages themselves.
A date here is the one the page gives for itself: when it was published, or last updated. Sites often refresh an old recipe and its date together, so read these as when the pages went up, not when the recipes were created.
Recipes per year
Dated pages by the year they give. The first bar gathers the 3 pages from before 2007. Shading marks the periods compared below.
How the typical loaf changed
Between banana bread pages dated before 2018 and those dated 2024 or later, the median sugar fell from 80% to 70% of the flour weight. Banana, fat, egg, dairy, leavening and salt show no clear change.
| Per 100 g flour | Before 2018158 recipes | 2018 to 2020136 recipes | 2021 to 2023156 recipes | 2024 and later161 recipes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BananaNo clear change | 148% | 158% | 144% | 148% |
| SugarLower | 80% | 80% | 70% | 70% |
| FatNo clear change | 45% | 45% | 44% | 45% |
| EggNo clear change | 40% | 40% | 40% | 42% |
| DairyNo clear change | 24% | 14% | 14% | 23% |
| LeaveningNo clear change | 3.3% | 3.4% | 3.2% | 3.7% |
| SaltNo clear change | 1% | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1% |
Each cell is the median baker's percentage in that period: grams of the ingredient per 100 g of flour. Higher and lower compare the newest period with the oldest, only where the change is clear (see how below). Periods are cut at year boundaries so each holds about the same number of recipes.
Oldest and newest pages
Oldest dates
Aug 7, 2002
Mini Banana Breads · bettycrocker.comApr 15, 2004
Banana Bread by Cook's illustrated · leitesculinaria.comAug 3, 2005
Pão de banana · tudogostoso.com.brMar 1, 2007
Buttermilk Banana Bread · bettycrocker.comJun 12, 2007
Double-Banana Bread · bettycrocker.com
Newest dates
Sep 23, 2026
Banana bread protéiné aux pépites de chocolat, moelleux et facile · hervecuisine.comSep 21, 2026
Banana Bread · twopeasandtheirpod.comSep 9, 2026
Banana Bread maison · mapatisserie.frSep 7, 2026
Fudgy Chocolate Banana Bread · thereciperebel.comSep 4, 2026
Pumpkin Banana Bread · africanbites.com
How the dates are read
Each date is the publication date in the recipe page's own structured data. 61 of the 708 recipes have none, or one without a year (such as “December 3”), and are left out.
36 more carry a date their site gave to many pages at once, which marks a site move or redesign rather than a publication: 2018-01-01 on tasteofhome.com (222 pages across Recipe Lab, 10 of them here), 2004-01-01 on bettycrocker.com (21 pages across Recipe Lab, 4 of them here) and 2006-10-23 on marmiton.org (74 pages across Recipe Lab, 4 of them here), and 11 more like it. They are left out too.
A change counts as clear when the newest period's median differs from the oldest period's by at least a tenth and a rank test puts the gap at 2.5 standard errors or more. For the share of recipes using an ingredient, the bar is 3 standard errors and 8 percentage points. Every ingredient is tested, so a lower bar would flag chance differences on most pages.
2026 is still in progress, so its bar is short for a reason that has nothing to do with baking.