Healthy Applesauce Banana Bread Recipe

I like fresh bananas, but I only like them just after they turned yellow from green. I even like them when there still is a little green on them. I can be very picky about bananas! (Is anyone else like that?)

The minute bananas get a little ripe, they are not for me! That means I constantly have bananas I don’t want to eat. They ripen so quickly! Luckily, one of my daughters LOVES banana bread.

No Oil Banana Bread

We have been using the same banana bread recipe for years. Just the other day, however, I accidentally found a way to make the banana bread even BETTER! I discovered a healthy and delicious banana bread recipe we both love.

I was in the middle of making banana bread recently when I discovered we were out of vegetable oil.

I didn’t want to run out to the store, so I substituted some unsweetened applesauce for the oil.

My daughter says she likes this new applesauce banana bread recipe the best! Our new applesauce banana bread recipe makes a moist banana bread with a soft texture. Yum!

Healthy Applesauce Banana Bread Recipe

I am sharing the new recipe I used for our new healthy applesauce banana bread. If you would rather, you could use vegetable oil instead of the applesauce – that is the way my daughter and I had been making banana bread for years!

A great thing about this applesauce banana bread recipe is that if you have soft, ripe bananas, you probably have the other needed items in your pantry or fridge already.

A key to making delicious banana bread is having very ripe bananas – if the skin is a little black, that’s actually a good thing!

If you have ripe bananas and don’t want them to ripen further, the best way to store them is in the refrigerator. You could put them in a sealed container, place them in a re-sealable plastic bag, or you could wrap them in plastic wrap.

Check out the recipe for applesauce banana bread below.