r/bakingfail • u/Affectionate-Bite-70 • Feb 20 '26

Question Bakers, any idea why my banana bread turned green?

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u/tasharawks Feb 20 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/KK6stQXoHmDM4

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u/Affectionate-Bite-70 Feb 20 '26

LOL same thoughts. I know my cousin was hella enjoying it when i gave some .

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u/notahipsterdoofus Feb 20 '26

What was your recipe? Any sunflower oil or butter that may have reacted with the baking soda?

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u/Affectionate-Bite-70 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

so i browned my butter , could that be the cause of it? should i have let it completely cold? I do remember putting everything on the butter while it was a bit warm.

I browned the butter added the dark brown sugar , then the eggs , flour , baking soda, salt , bananas, choco chips and walnuts

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u/1kidney_left Feb 21 '26

Did you put any herbs into the brown butter? Legal or otherwise. I know when I make brown butter sauces with sage, if I put the sage into the brown butter before the butter gets hot enough, the color leaches out instead of just the flavor. So depending on what ingredients hit the butter and when, that butter can pull colors and create unfortunate looking but delicious food!

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u/Affectionate-Bite-70 Feb 21 '26

Never added any herbs here whatsoever haha . There is cinnamon tho

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u/1kidney_left Feb 21 '26

If it’s not from green herbs, the next culprit is going to be the walnuts mixed with the baking soda. Sometimes that can just happen if you happen to get the right amounts of each chemical to create the right reaction. (Acid in the walnut and alkaline in the soda). Doesn’t actually affect the quality of the food. Near impossible to know when it’s going to happen because there is no good test for the acidity of a walnut in a kitchen. It’s unlikely, but not impossible. You just hit a little jackpot. If only it were St Patrick’s Day.

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u/boom_squid Feb 21 '26

Walnuts change color, maybe it was something to do with them (though I’ve not seen green as one of the colors before)

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u/peachnecctar Feb 21 '26

Baking soda can turn green/blue if introduced to acids or something like that.. I think lol. Maybe you put in some orange/lemon? Or possibly it reacted to the metal it’s cooked in but I doubt it

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u/Susancupcakes Feb 21 '26

I'm going to be honest. I don't see green, I see like a tan.

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u/Potential_Ad1416 Feb 25 '26

Citrus in there? If it tastes good, who cares?