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Banana Boss SRQ

Small-Batch Banana Bread

Made with integrity. Baked with purpose. Crafted from scratch using USDA Certified Organic Polselli Italian Tipo 00 flour, Kerrygold Irish butter, pasture-raised eggs, and ripe organic bananas. No shortcuts. No nonsense. Just real food.

🌿 USDA Certified Organic 🚫 Glyphosate-Free ✨ Unbromated 🥖 Unbleached 🍌 No Preservatives

Five Loaves, One Standard

Every loaf is baked from scratch using ripe bananas, Kerrygold Irish butter, organic ingredients, and USDA Certified Organic Polselli Italian Tipo 00 flour. No mixes. No preservatives. Ever. Each loaf is a hand-shaped mini — approximately 10 oz — named for a beloved corner of Sarasota.

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The Siesta
~10 oz mini loaf

Classic banana bread. Ripe organic bananas, Kerrygold Irish butter, and Italian Tipo 00 flour. Pure, simple, and perfect — like the beach it's named for.

$8
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The Ringling
~10 oz mini loaf

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

$9
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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
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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
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The Longboat
~10 oz mini loaf

Fresh organic strawberries and fair-trade Pascha chocolate chips, folded into our scratch-made banana batter. A little bit of romance in every slice — just like the sunset drive over the Longboat bridge.

$11

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Fresh-baked, made-to-order, and delivered straight to your door — anywhere in the Sunshine State.

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Shipping Across Florida

Carefully packaged and shipped fresh to anywhere in Florida.

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Local Delivery

Free local delivery available throughout the Sarasota area.

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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 any American 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.

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.

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 Kerrygold? We use Kerrygold Irish butter because Irish dairy cows graze on fresh grass for most of the year, producing butter with a higher butterfat content (82%+) than standard American butter (80%), more omega-3 fatty acids, and that unmistakable golden color from natural beta-carotene. No growth hormones. No antibiotics. Richer flavor, better baking, better for you.
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 most flour sold in America is a different story entirely. Let us walk you through it.

What's In Your Flour?

The Issue with American Flour

Most flour sold in the U.S. contains chemical additives and pesticide residues that are banned or restricted across Europe, Canada, and dozens of other countries. Here's what you're probably eating — and don't even know it.

⚠️ 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.

What Goes Into Every Loaf

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Real Bananas

Ripe, whole bananas — never flavorings or extracts.

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Organic Italian 00 Flour

Polselli — unbleached, unbromated, glyphosate-free.

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Kerrygold Butter

Irish grass-fed butter — higher butterfat, richer flavor.

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No Preservatives

Baked fresh — the way it's supposed to be.

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From Scratch

Every batch mixed and baked by hand. Never from a mix.

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Small Batch

Quality over quantity, always.