How Many Calories Are in Banana Nut Bread?

Video Transcript

"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."