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

That provides a nice hit of spice to balance the bourbon’s inherent sweetness, and the palate is layered and complex with notes of maple, brown sugar, vanilla pudding, banana bread, ripe plum, tobacco, and tannic oak. —Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025

And in the morning, there was a banana bread. —Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025

Once a simple way to use up overripe fruit, banana bread has evolved into one of the most versatile and popular comfort foods around. —Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025

What makes butter pecan banana bread different from regular banana bread with pecans? —Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for banana bread

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