Our Healthy Banana Muffins Recipe are an ever so lovely way to enjoy the beginning of the day! Today’s banana muffins are hard to beat because they are very healthy for you on top of being the best tastiest little muffins you’ve ever met! Healthy Banana Muffins combine whole wheat flour, bananas, applesauce, flaxseeds, olive oil, honey or agave, plus a few more ingredients to make them perfect!
Why we love Healthy Banana Muffins Recipe
I have a serious infatuation with muffins! Moist, light, and crumbly goodness crammed into a little fluffy muffin is pretty close to heaven for me. These Healthy Banana Muffins are NO exception.
I think my muffin addiction must be hereditary because my 2 year old daughter gets so excited while they’re baking! She keeps running over, looking in, and points while saying ‘cookies’. Yes, my sweet girl, they are just as amazing a freshly baked cookies.
The best part. . . is when they magically emerge from your oven as freshly baked little healthy banana cupcakes heaven!
Ingredients in Healthy Banana Muffins Recipe
• Bananas- are also rich in potassium, fiber and natural sugars. The vitamin C, potassium and other vitamins and minerals bananas contain help to maintain overall good health. Because the fruit’s sugar content is balanced with fiber, it helps maintain a healthy blood glucose level.
• Applesauce- Helps Promote Good Digestion. Due to a high concentration of pectin, applesauce aids in good digestion and helps remove waste from the body. Simultaneously it promotes the growth of probiotics. Apples contain soluble fiber — the kind that can help lower your blood cholesterol levels. They also contain polyphenols, which have antioxidant effects.
• Whole Wheat Flour- naturally has the level of fiber found in wheat, while most of the fiber has been removed from white flour during processing. Fiber is an important part of your diet, as it prevents constipation, helps control blood sugar, wards off heart disease, and even assists in weight-loss management.
• Leaveners- We are using both baking powder and baking soda (as mentioned above eggs and incorporating air are also leaveners) in our Cardamom Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe. When a recipe contains baking powder and baking soda, the baking powder does most of the leavening. It is preferred to use both because too much baking powder causes the batter to be bitter tasting and produces a tough crumb. Both baking powder and baking soda are chemical leavening agents that cause batters to rise when baked. The leavener enlarges the bubbles which are already present in the batter produced through creaming of ingredients.
• Flaxseed- is also a great source of lignans, which are a powerful antioxidant that helps your body maintain a healthy blood cholesterol level, high in Omega 3 Fatty Acids, high in dietary fiber, helps reduce blood pressure, and improves cholesterol.
• Olive Oil- is widely recognized as one of the world’s healthiest oils. In fact, people tend to live longer and healthier lives in regions where olive oil is a staple part. It is rich in healthy monounsaturated fats, contains large amounts of antioxidants, strong anti-inflammatory properties, may help prevent strokes, protective against heart disease
• Honey- has high levels of monosaccharides, fructose, and glucose, and it contains about 70 to 80 percent sugar, which provides its sweetness. Honey also has antiseptic and antibacterial properties. Modern medical science has managed to find uses for honey in chronic wound management and combating infection.
• Flavorful add in’s- cinnamon and vanilla because they are fabulous!! 🙂
Helpful baking tips for higher elevations:
- If you live 3,000 feet above sea level or more it is considered high elevation and may take longer to cook/bake.
- Adjustments are needed for 5000+ feet and above:
- Reduce baking powder: for each teaspoon, decrease 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon.
- Reduce sugar: for each cup, decrease 2 tablespoons.
- Increase liquid: for each cup, add 2 to 4 tablespoons.
- Increase oven temperature by 25 degrees F.
- Check if it is done a little early.
- This takes some trial and error to get it right for you.
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Healthy Banana Muffins Recipe

Healthy Banana Muffins Recipe is lovely way to enjoy the beginning of the day!
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole-wheat flour, I use Red Mill's whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp flax seeds, optional
- 2 bananas, peeled and mashed (or blended)
- 1/2 cup apple sauce
- 1/2 cup honey or organic agave
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup milk, of your choice... I used vanilla almond milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl combine all the dry ingredients.
- In a separate medium-sized bowl, whisk together the bananas, apple sauce, honey, olive oil, milk, and vanilla.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
- Fill lightly greased muffin pan with about 1/4 cup mixture. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the tops have browned. The inside will be moist!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 308Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 276mgCarbohydrates: 57gFiber: 6gSugar: 18gProtein: 7g
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** This recipe was a feature from Kami come to visit with us… she always has delicious healthy recipes to share and I love that!
Do you have the nutritional facts on these? I make them all the time. I donβt even need to use the recipe anymore! Iβm trying to keep track of calories and am not sure what these would have?
Hi Jennifer- I updated the recipe with all of the nutritional facts just now. If you make 12 muffins from the recipe each one is 308 calories. If you’d like to see any of the other info then just refer to the recipe card. Have a wonderful day! ~Ruthie
So happy to read your fun comment… so very glad you love this recipe so much its memorized!! YAY. Let me pull the nutritional values- one moment.
What would be the recommendation of substituting Wheat/White flour with Coconut Flour?
Coconut Flour is a equal parts substitution, as you probably know it has a bit grainy texture to it. Have you tried almond flour? That might be good too! Either way equal parts will work great!
These were excellent!
I’m so glad! We love them too π
Great recipe. I added 1 egg and reduced the vanilla to 1 tsp
Thank you! I’m so glad you liked them and I’ll have to give them a try your way too!
Made these, love them! kids ate one so far, crossing fingers they will eat the rest. I swapped the oil for almond butter and taste fine, they are mild on sugar, so next time I might add 1/4 cup of palm sugar. These are great to have handy, thank you for the recipe
Hi Maria! I’m so glad you’re enjoying these muffins… thank you for the fun substitution ideas. Have a fabulous day π xoxo~ Ruthie
These are delicious! If I added another banana, would I then be able to decrease the amount of honey? If so, by how much?
I’m so glad you liked them… If you added another banana I’d reduce the honey to 1/4 cup to start and see how it tastes, then adjusting up if necessary. Have a great weekend! xoxo~ Ruthie
websites should say muffins!
I’ve made these websites at least a dozen times now and my kids gobble them up within a day. They’re awesome. Hard to believe they are healthy!
That’s so wonderful to hear!! I’m so glad you and your family have loved them so much… thank you for the fun comment! xoxo~ Ruthie
Hi Ruthie,
Is it okay to store these in a ziploc bag at room temp? Or should they be refrigerated? Thanks so much!
Taylor
It’s always best to keep them in the fridge for storage- it’ll keep them the freshest for a few days and they’ll even do great being frozen for up to 4 weeks π xoxo~ Ruthie
can I use coconut oil instead of olive oil?
Yes… that will work just fine! I love that coconut oil- it’s so good for out bodies! ENjoy π xoxo~ Ruthie
Would I be able to use Maple Syrup instead of honey?? I do not have any honey left and I would love to make these!!
Yes, pure maple syrup could be substituted for the honey and it would work just fine. You’ll love them! xoxo~ Ruthie
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These muffins are AMAZING!!!
Looks delicious! If I don’t have apple sauce, can I just omit it? I don’t want to use butter or another puree to replace it.
I would recommend using some more mashed banana then… you definately will want enough moisture in them so they don’t turn out tough. I also use greek yogurt and it works fabulously! Hope that helps π xoxo~ Ruthie
Hi! I was wondering if it’s fine to use regular flour if I don’t have wheat flour? Will the muffins turn out the same? Thanks!
Yes, white flour will work just fine! I hope you enjoy them π xoxo~ Ruthie
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These muffins are amazing! Do you happen to have the calorie count/nutritional information?