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My name is Christine Marquette and I am a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with The
Austin Regional Clinic and I have been asked how many calories are in banana nut bread.
Now this can vary depending on whether it is home made banana nut bread versus store
bread banana nut bread. If you are making it at home you can actually reduce the calorie
content if you don't make it with margarine, say for example you use apple sauce to substitute
for part of the margarine and you use a little bit of vegetable oil that will cut the calorie
level down quite a bit. You might also reduce how many nuts you are adding say it calls
for a whole cup you may add only three quarters of a cup and you are going to actually reduce
your calorie level quite significantly so if you put that homemade banana nut bread
into a traditional loaf pan and you cut slices that are say about a half inch thick that
half inch slice of your homemade banana nut bread with all of your low fat cooking techniques
that you use, you are probably going to get about 110 calories from that slice. Now if
you were to buy commercially prepared banana nut bread that had been made with margarine
a one ounce slice is actually going to be closer to about 200 calories about 196 calories
for a one ounce slice. If you were to buy the little mini loaves say for example the
Keebler Elfin mini loaves of banana bread, they may or may not have nuts in them. Those
are going to be about 186 calories so a pretty wide range of calorie levels depending on
if you make it home made or if you buy it store bought.