Banana Coconut Cream Pie
Banana Coconut Cream Pie is a luscious dessert featuring a flaky or crumbly crust filled with a creamy custard made from bananas and coconut milk or cream, often topped with whipped cream and toasted coconut flakes. It typically includes ingredients like ripe bananas, coconut milk, sugar, eggs, cornstarch, and vanilla, with a base of either a traditional pastry crust or a graham cracker crust. This pie is a popular treat in American cuisine, particularly in Southern and tropical-inspired baking.
🍽️ Nutrition at a glance
This dessert is high in carbohydrates and fat due to its sugar, coconut cream, and crust, with minimal protein. It provides some potassium from bananas and small amounts of iron and calcium, but is primarily an indulgent treat with around 400-500 calories per slice.
Nutrition breakdown
| Calories | 380 kcal |
| Protein | 4.5 g |
| Carbs | 48 g |
| Fat | 21 g |
| Fiber | 2 g |
| Sugar | 32 g |
| Sodium | 220 mg |
| Potassium | 250 mg |
| Calcium | 80 mg |
| Iron | 1.5 mg |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.3 mg |
| Vitamin C | 6 mg |
| Magnesium | 40 mg |
| Phosphorus | 90 mg |
| Manganese | 0.8 mg |
Per 1 slice (1/8 of 9-inch pie, 120 g) · estimated, varies by recipe
💡 What's interesting
The combination of bananas and coconut reflects tropical influences, blending flavors common in Caribbean and Southeast Asian cuisines into a classic American pie format. Nutritionally, while it offers quick energy from sugars, the coconut adds medium-chain triglycerides, which are metabolized differently than other fats.
