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banana bread
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Key facts
- Type
- Sweet bread
- Place of origin
- United States
- Main ingredients
- Bananas , wheat , water , sugar
- Variations
- Banana raisin bread, banana nut bread, chocolate chip banana bread
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Banana bread is a type of sweet bread or cake made from mashed bananas. Banana bread is typically classified as a quick bread, relying on chemical leavening agents such as baking soda or baking powder rather than yeast, which allows it to be prepared without fermentation. It is often a moist and sweet quick bread, but some recipes are yeast raised. Its sweet taste and slightly crumbly texture make it more akin to a tea cake or muffin than bread.
The use of overripe bananas is common, as their increased sugar content and softer texture contribute to the bread’s characteristic sweetness and moist crumb.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “banana bread” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.