A low fat zucchini bread recipe

Low fat zucchini bread can add a very delicious taste to all your dishes, like different kinds of soups, salads as well as sandwiches.

If you don’t know how zucchinis look like, I can tell you that young zucchini look a lot like long cucumbers; both of them have similar size, color, and shape.

In fact, it is proved that eating low fat zucchini bread regularly has myriad advantages to your health.

Zucchinis are rich in vitamins and minerals, plus it contains no fat. Actually, zucchinis are powerful natural source of myriad vitamins, such as vitamin C, vitamin B1 and vitamin B6.

Also zucchini as a plant is rich in essential minerals to your body like iron, calcium, copper, zinc, phosphorus and magnesium.

If you like eating snacks and still following a heart healthy diet at the same time, then low fat zucchini bread is your best choice, because zucchinis consist of almost ninety five percent of water.

Can you believe that 100 grams of zucchini contains 18 calories only?

According to California Department of Public Health, zucchinis have many benefits to your body; eating zucchini on regular basis can enhance your memory, improve your eyesight and keep your teeth healthy.

Clinically, it is proved that zucchinis will preserve your bones strong. Scurvy, some types of cancers, asthma and MS (multiple sclerosis) are disease which can be prevented by eating zucchinis.

This recipe is for preparing zucchini bread, it is from Fitness and freebies.com, it is enough to serve 16 servings of low fat zucchini bread.

zucchini bread recipe
Instructions of cooking
  1. At the beginning, preheat your oven till it reaches 350 degrees.

  2. Spray sparingly an 8x4x2 inch loaf pan with vegetable oil (like corn or olive oils), strew some flour randomly on the prepared pan to avoid sticking of the bread to the pan after baking is finished; leave all aside.

  3. Combine all the dry ingredients in one clean mixing bowl; combine flour, cinnamon, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and nutmeg.

  4. In another clean mixing bowl, blind all wet ingredients together; whipped egg white, zucchini, sour cream and grated lemon peel.

  5. Carefully moisten the dry ingredients with all the wet ingredients until both are completely mixed together.

  6. Pour this mixture in the prepared pan and bake it in the pre-heated oven for nearly one hour.


Nutrition facts (per each serving) Amount
Calories 92
Calories from fat 1%
Fat <1 gram
Carbohydrate 22 grams
Protein 2 grams
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 53 mg


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