Healthy Banana Bread Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated April 10, 2018
John Kernick
For a simple and tasty breakfast or snack, try some of these healthy banana bread recipes.
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Banana-Walnut Bread with Flax

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A from-scratch quick bread with flax seed meal and walnuts is a great way to use overripe bananas.

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Old-Fashioned Banana Bread

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This extraordinarily simple and tasty banana bread (with a moist center and crispy crust) is a Ritter family heirloom. "The recipe has been in our family for generations," Lisa Ritter says.

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Cinnamon-Banana Bread

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The Good News This recipe is full of potassium-packed bananas. Instead of processed sugar, it calls for agave nectar, a natural sweetener; a little canola oil replaces the usual butter. The bread is an improvement on the one Erin McKenna often made with her mother when she was growing up: "I thought it was so healthy, because of the bananas. I didn't factor in all the sugar and butter."

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Banana Cake

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This moist banana bread cake is easy to make and can be baked into smaller loaves or a larger pan.

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Black Sesame Chocolate-Banana Loaf Cakes

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Blogger Sarah Bolla of Lemon Fire Brigade uses oil and silken tofu to create these deliciously moist, grown-up, dairy-free cakes.

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Smashed-Banana Bread


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At Dovecote Café in Baltimore, this banana bread is one of many awesome baked goods served on a daily basis. The recipe comes from owner Aisha Pew’s mother, Gilda Bain-Pew, and includes super-ripe bananas and a hit of banana liqueur (but it’s still quite good without the liqueur).

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