This is an easy recipe that my whole family loves. It's a great way to use up old bananas too.

Healthy Banana Bread with Applesauce Recipe

Cups All-Purpose Flour (may sub up to half with whole wheat flour)

Cup Unsweetened Applesauce

Large Bananas, (ripe to over-ripe and mashed)

Large Eggs

Cup Brown Sugar

tsp Baking Soda

Vanilla

tsp Cinnamon

Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl

Mix brown sugar and applesauce until completely blended

Add 2 eggs, vanilla, and bananas to the sugar and mix well

Add wet ingredients into the dry and fold until all ingredients are wet

Bake on 350 for 60-70 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean

While substituting oil for my homemade applesauce, this recipe sounds great! I’ve heard about doing this and your recipe sounds like the one I need to try.

Great taste and WAY less sugar/oil than my Mom’s old recipe. I DID add walnuts to it! YUM!

I love your recipe! Thanks for sharing. So moist and no one can believe it is dairy-free ? It’s my go-to when bananas start to get brown.

Bread is in the oven now, smells yummy!! I love issuing applesauce instead of oils!

I found your site by searching applesauce banana bread. Thank you go the recipe, I can’t wait to make it

Great recipe, couldn’t wait for it to cool off to eat it!

Great recipe! Our kids are very sensitive to sugar, get jittery even with natural oj. We substituted brown sugar and apple sauce with 7 bananas total. We also replace flour with Kodiak Power Mix. The result is amazing. We have been making the bread with variation of pineapples, bananas and apples, abs. delicious, thanks so much!!

Made it with whole wheat flour and it was delish! !!!! Will definitely use this recipe again! Thanks!

Thanks for the recipe! I used whole wheat flour, added walnuts and always sub 1/2 of the called for sugar with ground flax seed. It was delicious!!

Thanks for sharing this recipe….I was looking for one with exactly four ripe bananas!

I made this this morning but made muffins instead of loaf. I also sub. 1/2 the flour for wheat flour and used 1/2 the amount of sugar. I used splenda brown sugar blend. I doubled the cinn. I also added some frozen blue berries to the muffins before putting in the oven. Yummmmmy!!

I made this bread today. It’s really good!!!

I tried it and it came out great thank you… The only thing I did different is put walnuts

I love healthy banana breads!
Replacing the butter with applesauce is brilliant. I discovered this substitute years ago and I’ve been doing it ever since.
Thanks for sharing!

Delicious! Added an extra banana and chopped walnuts. Made mini loaves ?

Just made this today. I substituted 1/2 cup of organic pure maple syrup for the brown sugar and added dark chocolate chips. I did use regular white flour (2 cups as stated) and the bread is delicious and very moist. I did take it out of oven after 55 minutes as it was getting very brown. Next time, I will check it at 45 and 50 minutes. I was wondering if using the maple syrup could make it that brown. I was afraid it was burning but no burnt taste at all. I have been using unsweetened applesauce as substitute for several other recipes, so was happy to find this one for banana bread. Thanks!

After reading all the comments, I made this recipe and substituted whole wheat flour for white flour and I used date sugar (really just ground up dates) for the brown sugar. It came out great!

Excellent! I added about 1/3 cup of chocolate chips for the kids.

Added chocolate chips and cut the recipe in half so it’s a bit smaller.

Great recipe! Love the consistency of the bread and it has the perfect blend of sweetness.

Seriously this my new favorite recipe for banana bread! I made the recipe in mini muffin tins at 350 for 15 minutes! My kids are already asking me to make this again ? thanks!

This will be my new go to banana bread recipe! 
So much healthier without the oil and tasted wonderful. Made the recipe exactly and mine was done at 50 minutes. It could be oven differences or because I used a dark metal pan.

Used whole wheat flour and it was super moist and fantastic. My new go-to!

Excellent....next time will make muffins for my grandson

I added walnuts and more spices (clove, nutmeg and ginger). So excited to try it.

Note to Self: Easy recipe and great taste. 6-cup bundt pan was very full but it worked fine. Used melted shortening dusted with almond flour as pan prep, which worked well.

Soo tasty and so easy to make! I've made it a few times in a toaster over and it was just as good, plus
I added some chocolat chips this lastest time making the recipe and it was great! Thanks so much!

Hi there! I was curious to know the calorie count for this recipe - per slice? I’m on a calorie deficit and made this for our weeks breakfast!

It's ok...I don't feel like it has much flavor....it's not very sweet...could be my bananas weren't ripe ripe??...

I added walnuts to the recipe. Delicious!

This is a good recipe easy to make I think I could’ve taken them out a little bit earlier. Still very good.

I used 1 cup whole wheat flour and 1 cup all-purpose flour. I also replaced some of the brown sugar with stevia. Baked for 60 mins, though it was a little overdone. 45-50 mins probably would have been fine. But it still came out delicious!

Topped with rainbow chips for a little fun!

I added chocolate chips and baked in muffin tin. Worked out perfectly! Baked for about 15 minutes.

I’ve made this 3 times and always use 1/2 whole wheat flour. Love it! So moist and just right amount of sweetness. (I always use super ripe bananas).  I add 1 teaspoon baking powder only because I saw it in the NYT’s recipe and the texture’s so nice I’m afraid to omit it! Not sure what would happen if I did? How long do you suggest for muffins?

it is easy to make and the flavor/texture is unbelievable. my family enjoy the treat every time.

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This is our go-to easy, healthy banana bread with applesauce recipe that my whole family loves. It's a great way to use up old bananas too. 

healthy banana bread with applesauce recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hours

Total: 1 hours, 15 minutes

Author : Rebecca Baron

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