Banana Quick Bread - PCOS-Friendly Recipe

Banana Quick Bread
Servings: 12
Lunch

Nutrition per Serving

0 Calories
0g Protein
0g Carbs
0g Fat
Sweet, moist banana bread makes a delicious quick breakfast, snack, or healthy dessert.

Ingredients

  • 2 c. white whole wheat flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 c. packed brown sugar
  • 2 large egg whites
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 1/2 c. ripe bananas
  • 1/3 c. low-fat buttermilk
  • 3 tbsp. vegetable oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly coat 9- by 5-inch loaf pan with nonstick baking spray.
  2. In medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
  3. In large bowl, with mixer on medium-high speed, beat sugar, egg whites, and egg until almost doubled in volume. On medium speed, beat in bananas, buttermilk, and oil until well combined.
  4. With rubber spatula, gently fold in flour mixture until just combined.
  5. Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing top. Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  6. Let cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool completely on wire rack. Can be stored, tightly wrapped, at room temperature up to 3 days or in freezer up to 1 month.

PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe

This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.

Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).

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