Banana Boss SRQ™ — Organic Scratch-Made Banana Bread & Gluten-Free

The Lineup

Four Loaves, Two Ways

Every loaf is baked from scratch with ripe organic bananas, organic Irish butter, and pasture-raised organic eggs. No mixes. No preservatives. Ever. Each loaf is a hand-shaped mini — approximately 10 oz — named for a beloved corner of Sarasota. Choose your flour:

Classic uses USDA Certified Organic Polselli Italian Tipo 00 — unbleached, unbromated, glyphosate-free.
Gluten-Free uses our own organic house blend, mixed and baked in a separate dedicated kitchen — no xanthan gum, no rice, no modified starch. Read how →
Every loaf below is available either way. Choose your line at checkout.

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The Siesta

~10 oz mini loaf

Classic banana bread. Ripe organic bananas and organic Irish butter, nothing hiding behind them. Pure, simple, and perfect — like the beach it's named for.

$8+$2 gluten-free

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The Ringling

~10 oz mini loaf

Our classic loaf crowned with toasted organic walnuts. Rich, nutty, and a little theatrical — just like its namesake.

$9+$2 gluten-free

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The Bayfront

~10 oz mini loaf

Fair-trade Pascha organic chocolate chips from Peru, folded into our scratch-made banana batter. Sweet afternoons on the water, in loaf form.

$9+$2 gluten-free

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The Lido

~10 oz mini loaf

Toasted walnuts and organic Pascha chocolate chips, folded into our scratch-made banana batter. The indulgent one — named for Sarasota's most spirited stretch of sand.

$10+$2 gluten-free

Our Flour

Polselli Organic Tipo 00 — A Better Flour

We use USDA Certified Organic Polselli Tipo 00 — milled in Italy from 100% Italian-grown organic wheat, where even the seeds are sourced from Italian soil. Family-milled since 1848 and trusted by the world's best pizzaiolos and pastry chefs in over 35 countries, Polselli is widely regarded as a global benchmark for Tipo 00. The result is a flour that's cleaner, finer, and gentler on your body.

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Ultra-Fine Grind

The finest milling grade in Italy's classification — silky texture and a more tender crumb than standard all-purpose flour.

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Lowest Ash Content

Pure endosperm with minimal bran, producing flour with a soft, natural off-white color — never bleached to look unnaturally white.

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Superior Texture

Creates a more tender crumb and lighter body than standard all-purpose flour — you can taste the difference.

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No Glyphosate. Ever.

As certified BIO (organic) wheat, no synthetic pesticides or herbicides are used at any stage — from seed to harvest. Italy also bans pre-harvest glyphosate desiccation by law.

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Unbromated

No potassium bromate or artificial dough conditioners. Quality wheat doesn't need chemical crutches.

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Unbleached

Naturally aged and whitened — no chlorine gas, no benzoyl peroxide, no shortcuts. Just patience and craft.

Why Polselli Organic 00? Our flour is USDA Certified Organic Polselli Tipo 00 — milled in Italy from 100% Italian-grown organic wheat, where even the seeds must be Italian. Polselli has been a family-run mill since 1848, and their flour is studied as a world benchmark for Tipo 00 — used by the best pizzaiolos, bakers, and pastry chefs in over 35 countries. Combined with Italy's ban on synthetic pesticides, GMOs, pre-harvest glyphosate, and chemical bleaching, this is the cleanest flour you can bake with. Better flour costs more — but your health is worth more.

Why Organic Irish Butter? Irish dairy cows graze on fresh grass for most of the year — a pasture-based system rather than the grain-fed industrial model used in most large-scale dairy. The result is butter with higher butterfat (82%+ against the 80% standard), more omega-3 fatty acids, and that unmistakable golden color, which comes from beta-carotene in the grass itself. Certified organic on top of that means no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers on the pasture, no growth hormones, and no routine antibiotics. Richer flavor, better baking.

Why Pascha Organic Chocolate? Our chocolate chips are Pascha Organic — just three ingredients (organic cane sugar, organic chocolate liquor, organic cocoa butter), made from single-origin Peruvian cacao on Rainforest Alliance farms. USDA Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, and certified 1% for the Planet. No soy lecithin, no emulsifiers, no allergens — produced in a facility free of peanuts, tree nuts, gluten, dairy, and sesame. Clean chocolate the way it should be.

Why Eco-Clear Packaging? Every loaf is sealed in a Pure Cello bag — a plant-based, biodegradable cellulose film made from sustainably sourced wood pulp. Crystal clear, food-safe, and home-compostable. Because clean ingredients deserve clean packaging.

So why go through all this trouble? Because not all flour is made the same way. Let us walk you through what we look for.

Separate Dedicated Gluten-Free Kitchen

Our GF Flour

The House Blend — Gluten-Free, Still Organic

We tested every gluten-free flour we could find, and every one of them broke a rule we weren't willing to break. So we built our own. Four organic ingredients, weighed and blended by hand in our gluten-free kitchen — nothing else. The ratio took us a lot of loaves to get right, so we keep that part to ourselves.

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Sorghum FlourUSDA Organic

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Millet FlourUSDA Organic

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Tapioca StarchUSDA Organic

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Potato StarchUSDA Organic

Four ingredients. The ratio is ours.

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No Rice Flour

Rice-based blends are the industry default — and rice is one of the crops most prone to accumulating inorganic arsenic and cadmium from soil. Several carry Prop 65 warnings. Ours has none, because ours has no rice.

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Tapioca — Not Cassava Flour

Both come from the cassava root, and the difference matters. Cassava flour is the whole root, dried and ground, so whatever the root pulled from the soil stays in. Tapioca is only the washed, extracted starch. We use the starch.

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No Xanthan Gum

We bind with organic whole psyllium husk instead — a plant fiber, not a lab-fermented additive. Better crumb, cleaner label, and your gut can tell the difference.

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Organic for a Reason

Sorghum, millet and potatoes are all crops conventionally sprayed with glyphosate days before harvest — same practice as wheat. Certifying every one of them organic is the whole point. We skipped oats entirely for the same reason.

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Not Deglutinated Wheat

Some well-known "gluten-free" European flours are built on deglutinated wheat starch. That's a processing trick, not a wheat-free flour. Ours starts from naturally gluten-free grains.

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Nothing Modified. Nothing Bleached.

Most gluten-free baking runs on modified food starch — starch chemically altered to behave. Ours are native starches, unmodified and unbleached, exactly as they came out of the root.

Why a Separate Kitchen? Because "we're careful" isn't good enough for someone with celiac disease. Our gluten-free loaves are mixed and baked in a second, fully separate kitchen with its own equipment, pans, utensils, and sealed storage. No wheat flour enters that room — ever. Our classic loaves are baked in our wheat kitchen. The two lines never share air, surfaces, or tools.

Why Not Just Buy a GF Flour? We tried. The best-performing supermarket blends aren't organic and lean on xanthan gum. The premium Italian one is deglutinated wheat starch. The rice blends carry heavy-metal warnings. The cassava ones raise soil-absorption questions. Every option asked us to trade our standard for convenience. Building our own costs more per ounce and takes an extra step every batch — and it's the only version of this we'd actually eat.

Where It Comes From Our sorghum, millet and tapioca come from Relative Foods, a family-run Michigan company packaging in an allergen-free facility; our potato starch from Anthony's. Every one is USDA Certified Organic, non-GMO, and unmodified.

All three Relative Foods flours also carry GFCO certification — the Gluten-Free Certification Organization standard, which requires testing at 10 ppm or less. That's half the 20 ppm the FDA allows for a gluten-free label, and it applies to every incoming ingredient, not just the finished bag.

Our potato starch is a single ingredient — organic potato starch, nothing added — batch tested for gluten, certified organic by CCOF, and a product of Germany. That last part matters more than it sounds: potatoes are one of the crops US growers routinely desiccate with glyphosate before harvest, and the EU prohibits that practice outright. Same reasoning that sends us to Italy for our wheat flour.

Same Loaf. Same Standard. Gluten-free doesn't mean a lesser version here. Same organic Irish butter, same pasture-raised organic eggs, same ripe organic bananas, same Pascha single-origin Peruvian chocolate, same in-house toasted organic walnuts. Every loaf in the lineup is available in both lines.

What's In Your Flour?

Three Things We Won't Bake With

Sourcing the way we do costs more and takes longer, so it's fair to ask what we're actually avoiding. Three things, mostly. Here's what each one is, and why we went looking for flour without them.

Two of the three below are wheat-flour problems, and we won't pretend otherwise: bromate and bleaching don't apply to gluten-free flour. Glyphosate does — which is exactly why every grain in our gluten-free blend is certified organic too.

⚠️ Glyphosate (Roundup Weed Killer)

It's in your bread. Independent testing has found glyphosate residues in wheat flour, bread, oats, pasta, and cereal sold at major U.S. grocery stores — including popular brands marketed as "healthy."
The WHO classifies it as probably cancer-causing. In 2015, the World Health Organization's cancer research agency classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans," linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
It's sprayed right before harvest. Many U.S. farmers spray glyphosate directly onto wheat and grain crops just before harvest as a drying agent — a practice called "desiccation" — which dramatically increases residue levels in the final product you eat.
Italy banned this practice. In 2016, Italy's Ministry of Health banned pre-harvest glyphosate spraying and restricted its use in public areas.
Courts agree there's an issue. Bayer (which acquired Monsanto) has paid over $11 billion settling roughly 100,000 lawsuits from people alleging Roundup caused their cancer.

🧪 Potassium Bromate (Bromated Flour)

Classified as a possible carcinogen. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified potassium bromate as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" in 1999. Studies have linked it to kidney, thyroid, and gastrointestinal cancers in animals.
Banned across much of the world. Potassium bromate has been banned as a food additive in the European Union (since 1990), Canada, the UK, Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, and many other countries. In the U.S., it's still legal — and still widely used.
Hiding in your grocery aisle. The Environmental Working Group has identified over 200 products containing potassium bromate currently sold in the U.S. The FDA hasn't formally reviewed the additive since at least 1973.
Our flour is 100% unbromated. Italian Tipo 00 flour relies on quality wheat and expert milling — not chemical shortcuts.

⚪ Chemical Bleaching (Bleached Flour)

Whitened with industrial chemicals. Common bleaching agents include chlorine gas, chlorine dioxide, and benzoyl peroxide. These chemicals alter the flour's protein structure and strip away natural pigments.
Banned across the EU. The use of chlorine, bromates, and peroxides as flour bleaching agents is not permitted in the European Union. European flour is aged naturally — the way it's been done for centuries.
Natural aging is better. Unbleached flour is whitened through natural oxidation over time. It takes patience, but the result is a cleaner flour with better flavor and no chemical residue.
Our flour is 100% unbleached. Italian Tipo 00 flour gets its beautiful color and silky texture from precision milling and careful grain selection — not chlorine gas.

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Polselli Organic Tipo 00 — A Better Flour

Ultra-Fine Grind

Lowest Ash Content

Superior Texture

No Glyphosate. Ever.

Unbromated

Unbleached

The House Blend — Gluten-Free, Still Organic

No Rice Flour

Tapioca — Not Cassava Flour

No Xanthan Gum

Organic for a Reason

Not Deglutinated Wheat

Nothing Modified. Nothing Bleached.

Three Things We Won't Bake With

⚠️ Glyphosate (Roundup Weed Killer)

🧪 Potassium Bromate (Bromated Flour)

⚪ Chemical Bleaching (Bleached Flour)

What Goes Into Every Loaf

Real Bananas

Two Organic Flours

Organic Irish Butter

No Preservatives

From Scratch

Small Batch