banana bread

noun

plural banana breads

: a quick bread made with mashed ripe bananas mixed into the batter

Banana bread is the unsung hero of cutting back on kitchen waste. What other decadent treat could you make that uses up all your nearly-expired breakfast fruit?

—Kaitlyn McInnis

A lot of us are moving from one "comfort food" meal to the next (think of all the lasagnas and banana breads on Instagram).

—Michael J. Breus

Examples of banana bread in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

View Recipe Back-to-school banana bread With one last day before the start of the school year, the kids and I decamped to the kitchen to make use of four bananas in need of TLC. —The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appétit, 6 Sep. 2024

After a class, head next door to the studio’s restaurant, Island Fresh Café, for an acai bowl or superfood smoothie or drop by the farm stand in the parking lot and grab some apple bananas, mangos, avocados, and banana bread for the beach. —Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024

And unlike banana bread, which is already naturally sweet, zucchini bread can use a little help in that department. —Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024

Choose from homemade seasonal fruit tarts, granola, banana bread, and scones. —Jade Simon, Vogue, 20 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above