Banana bread popularity is on the rise during COVID-19, but why?
Phase one: Panic shopping for toilet paper, water, and hand sanitizer.
Phase three: Make banana bread.
Are you even self-isolating if you havent made banana bread yet?
Somehow, its become the unofficial baked good ofCOVID-19.
Everyone, it seems, it making it.
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Trends data on Pinterest shows a similar surge in user interest for banana bread recipes starting on March 24.
Translation: People really, really want banana bread.
Now, certainly theres nothing wrong with banana bread; its about as uncontroversial as baked goods come.
(Hey, fruit cake cant say the same.)
Unlike other baked goods, the name gives it an air of health superiority.
And its made withbananas.
Surely its the health equivalent of having a salad for breakfast!
But the question remains: Why did banana bread in particular become the baking status symbol du jour?
We decided to investigate this extremely delicious trend.
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The rest, as they say, is history.
So theres a timelessness with it, Johnson says.
It takes less work than some other ingredients.
(In March 2020, theaverage price per pound of fresh bananas was $0.58.)
Sweet foods and drinks actually taste sweeter when they are warmed up, Dr. Herz says.
Herz previously told meduring an interview about the science behind comfort food cravings.
Banana bread is a food that, for many, has a nostalgic, family connection, she says.
Thats another reason why people may find it especially comforting right now.
Anyone else in their kitchen sipping red wine and aggressively baking banana bread at 9:40pm?
Why is banana bread so popular right now?
Blame your IG feed.
According to Dr. Herz, seeing photos of a specific food can make you crave it.
Whatever the reasons, there are certainly worse things that everyone could be doing right now.
(Exhibit A: Three weeks ago when everyone was hoarding toilet paper.)
Really the only question that remains is, what will we make when we run out of bananas?
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