Guide Note

Banana bread is a quick bread made from bananas, baking soda or baking powder, butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Because it uses a chemical leavening agent instead of yeast to make it rise, and does not require kneading, it is easy to make. This aided in the dessert's popularity in the 1960s.

Fast Facts

1. Leavening: Baking soda, not yeast
2. Add-ins: Peanut butter, zucchini, chocolate
3. American recipe
4. First printed recipe: 1930s

1. Scientific name: Musa
2. Types: 400
3. Countries grown in: 107
4. Cavendish: Type most eaten in U.S.
5. 27 pounds: Consumption per American per year
6. Grown in tropical climates
7. High in fiber and potassium
8. A type of of plaintain

1. Zucchini Bread
2. Pumpkin Bread
3. Cranberry Bread