Healthier Banana Bread

Healthier banana bread is made from the very minimal amount of oil and sugar and contains no butter. It's less that 200 calories per slice too!

Folks, this healthier banana bread is an absolutely delicious healthy banana bread recipe that I've made for my family and friends for years.

I figure that if they love it, you will too!

It's a low calorie banana bread recipe. For calories there's only 154 Calories per slice of banana bread cake.

So if you're following the 80:20 rule it's pretty much OK to have a couple of slices of this homemade banana bread a day!

Banana bread is just one of those classic recipes that everyone loves.

Baking a homemade banana cake fills your whole house with delicious smells and makes everyone feel better.

This easy to make low calorie banana bread has a moist but fluffy texture and of course is filled with the taste of banana!

We took some slices of banana bread away with us on a day trip recently, wrapped in cling film and kept in a plastic lunch box.

The banana bread slices were still as moist and tasty as they were when it was first cut!

My other half even recently mentioned that this banana bread could be her choice of birthday cake this year if it was covered in something yummy like cream cheese icing, chocolate chips or even chocolate ganache!

So I made her a chocolate chip banana bread for her birthday and a chocolate chip banana coconut porridge for a healthy breakfast!

Why not check out my other low calorie banana recipes in the list below?

You could enjoy a slice of this whole wheat banana bread as a mid-morning healthy snack along with a cup of coffee.

And again later for your mid-afternoon snack with a nice cup of tea? Well, that’s how I like to have mine anyway!

Whatever your preference I'm sure that you'll find this a delicious moist healthy banana bread which is full of nutritious ingredients and you'll definitely want to add it to your list of easy recipes!

Jump to:

• 🥘 Ingredients
• 📖 Substitutions
• 🔪 Instructions
• 💭 Why This Is Healthier Banana Bread
• 🍽 Equipment
• 🍰 Other Popular Low Calorie Banana Recipes You Might Also Like
• 📋 Healthy Banana Bread Recipe
• 🧾 Nutrition Label
• ⭐ Rate The Recipe

🥘 Ingredients

• Plain Flour / All Purpose Flour
• Wholemeal Flour / Wholewheat Flour
• Bicarbonate Of Soda
• Salt
• Baking Powder
• Ground Cinnamon
• Caster Sugar
• Ripe Bananas
• No Fat Greek Yogurt / Natural Yogurt
• Eggs
• Vegetable Oil
• Vanilla Extract / Vanilla Essence

See recipe card for the actual quantites of the healthy banana bread recipe ingredients.

📖 Substitutions

• Plain Flour / All Purpose Flour
• Wholemeal Flour / Wholewheat Flour - if you can't get these you can just use an equal amount of plain / all purpose flour. This will change the nutritional label though.
• Bicarbonate Of Soda
• Salt
• Baking Powder
• Ground Cinnamon
• Caster Sugar - for a natural sweetener you can substitute with maple syrup or honey instead. Use roughly 150g although test for personal preference.
• Ripe Bananas
• No Fat Greek Yogurt / Natural Yogurt - to make this vegan use a vegan alternative.
• Eggs - I use medium eggs. You can make this vegan by using flax eggs instead as well as maple syrup.
• Vegetable Oil - you can use melted coconut oil. I don't recommend olive oil as it has a distinct taste to it.
• Vanilla Extract / Vanilla Essence

🔪 Instructions

Detailed instructions for this healthy banana bread recipe are in the recipe card below. But here is a quick step by step guide of how to make this healthier banana bread:

1. Pre-heat oven. Grease loaf tin.
2. Sift dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
3. Mix wet ingredients in another smaller mixing bowl.
4. Fold wet banana mixture ingredients into the dry ingredients to create a batter.
5. Pour batter into prepared loaf tin. Bake until risen and golden brown.
6. Use a wooden skewer / cocktail stick to ensure the inside is fully cooked.
7. Allow tin to cool slightly and then remove and transfer best banana bread to a wire rack / cooling rack.
8. Once completely cooled to room temperature place in an airtight container either store in the fridge or slice into 15 individual slices wrap in plastic wrap and freeze.

💭 Why This Is Healthier Banana Bread

• This low calorie bread recipe is made with a mixture of wholemeal and plain flour. Rather than 100% plain flour which you would find in a traditional banana bread recipe.
• Although the recipe does contain caster sugar its 50% less than in a normal bread recipe.
• This low calorie banana recipe does not use butter. Instead vegetable oil and Greek yogurt are used as a substitute.

🍽 Equipment

For This Banana Bread Recipe You May Need….

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🍰 Other Popular Low Calorie Banana Recipes You Might Also Like

• Chocolate chip banana loaf cake is an easy to make, moist and delicious bake. Great served as a dessert or a coffee morning cake. Everyone will love this!
• Cranberry banana bread is a deliciously moist healthy addition to your baking list. I’m using dried cranberries as opposed to fresh cranberries meaning it’s not just for Christmas it’s for all year round!
• Healthy banana and walnut loaf is the perfect accompaniment to your coffee/tea break. Filled with crunchy walnuts it’s a great budget cake for sharing with friends!
• Banana bread muffins. These delicious healthier banana muffins are easy to make and can be ready in just over 30 minutes. A great recipe for kids to make too!
• Healthy banana oat pancakes. Delicious and extremely easy to make banana pancakes. Put the ingredients into a blender or food processor and then cook them in just 20 minutes!

🧾 Nutrition Label

Nutritional information provided below is calculated using paid for online tools and the exact ingredients and quantities used above.

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