Healthy banana bread that helps fight cancer with this Secret Ingredient!

This is an easy banana bread recipe with chocolate chips, and there's a secret healthy ingredient! Actually there are several things that make this recipe healthier. Not only does it have no sugar (it subs honey), but this healthy banana bread recipe uses heart healthy coconut oil, whole wheat flour and the secret SUPER ingredient flax. You can easily turn this into a chocolate chip banana bread recipe and still keep it sugar free by using 100% cacao chips, or if you have picky eaters in your house and you have to use regular chocolate chips with sugar, at least you can feel good about having improved numerous other ingredients in this recipe.

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Timestamps (click on time link to jump right to that point in video):
0:00:00 - start
0:00:13 - intro: how I came up with this recipe
0:00:54 - reasons why you should eat more flaxseed
0:01:43 - ingredient substitutions and why they're healthier than what's in traditional banana bread
0:02:49 - preparation steps
0:04:11 - corny Dad joke
0:05:44 - final result and how to tell the banana bread is done
0:06:15 - Taste review by a 6 year old
0:06:44 - Review: why the ingredients are healthier

Ingredients:
1 cup white flour
cup whole wheat flour
cup ground flaxseed or flax meal (= about 2/3 cup unground seeds). Golden flax preferred, but brown flax is fine also.
1 teaspoon baking powder
teaspoon baking soda
teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Scant cup honey
2 eggs
1/3 cup coconut oil
2 large or 3 medium very ripe bananas
Optional: cup chocolate chips (for entirely sugar free use 100% cacao chips)

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. If you dont have flax meal, grind 2/3 cup flaxseeds in a spice grinder to a fine flour consistency (20-30 seconds). Mix the dry ingredients (white flour through cinnamon) in a bowl. In a second bowl, mash the bananas well. Then to the bowl with the mashed banana add the honey, 2 beaten eggs, and 1/3 cup coconut oil (Measured in solid state, then melted before adding to bowl). Mix all wet ingredients together well. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients 1/3rd at a time, making sure everything is fully moistened before adding the next 1/3rd. Lastly if using chocolate chips, then fold them in. Pour the batter into a standard loaf size pan and bake in the oven for 55 minutes or until golden brown on top, edges look firm and have just started to pull away from the edge of the pan and internal temperature is at least 190 degrees Farenheit in the center of the thickest part. Remove from oven and let cool in pan for 10-15 minutes, then remove from pan and continue to cool on a cooling rack. Its best to cool completely before eating so that the coconut oil will solidify.

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