Healthy Pumpkin Bread

Here’s the BEST healthy pumpkin bread, perfectly moist and flavorful. You’ll never believe it’s made without flour…just 100% rolled oats! Naturally gluten and dairy free.

“Try this pumpkin breadI suggested Alex’s family. They took a pumpkin-spiced wet bite and began to murmur their approval when I tossed out, “It’s also made from oats! no flour“They looked at me in astonishment. “What? That’s great.“Yeah, that’s what really happened Healthy Pumpkin Bread (paraphrased of course!). It’s so moist, so cozy, flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg, you’ll hardly notice it’s all oatmeal…no flour at all. We don’t eat exclusively gluten-free, but we do Do I love eating a heart-healthy oatmeal treat that tastes amazing. Here are all the tips to make this delicious quick bread at home!

Ingredients for healthy pumpkin bread

Pumpkin bread is the best fall treat, but most of the recipes are like eating glorified pie! That’s where this healthy pumpkin bread comes in. Let’s be honest: You can never really say that pumpkin bread is a healthy food because it’s loaded with sugar. However, this one is healthier than the rest! It’s made from only whole grain oats, meaning you get the health benefits of oats in every slice. (More on that below.) Here’s what you’ll need to make this gluten-free, dairy-free pumpkin bread:

• Old fashioned oatmeal: Do not replace steel cut oats or instant oats! You need good oatmeal here. But you will be mixing it with flour, so you can substitute store-bought oatmeal as well.
• Sugar or coconut blossom sugar: Use the powdered sugar of your choice.
• Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Vanilla, and Salt: the usual suspects for cooking
• Pumpkin Pie Spice: Grab a store-bought bottle or use our house blend.
• eggs: These are important because they bind the oats together. Learn more about vegan substitutes below.
• Pumpkin puree: Use plain pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling! (It is different.)
• Neutral Oil: Use organic vegetable oil, organic canola oil or grapeseed oil.

Make everything in the blender!

Here’s the secret of this recipe: you prepare everything in a blender! Many of our recipe testers have mentioned how easy it is to throw all the ingredients for this recipe in a blender. Here’s what you need to know:

• It’s easier to use a high-speed blender or a quality blender. It also works with a not-so-good blender… you just have to work harder! Having some mixer power behind you helps, but it doesn’t have to. Be aware that blending may take a little longer if your blender isn’t capable of it.
• First mix the oat flakes into the oat flakes. You’re going to throw some old-fashioned oatmeal in the blender and turn it on. Watch it turn into oatmeal powder! If your blender isn’t that good, you can use store-bought oatmeal.
• Then add everything else and mix! The blender is key to the fluffy, moist texture. It’s so light and fluffy, you might be surprised it’s just oatmeal.

A note on texture, cooling and slicing

After you bake this healthy pumpkin bread, you’ll want to eat it right away. Not ! It is important to let it cool so that the texture sets. If you cut it right away, the pieces will fall apart! Promise.

Another tip: Cut the bread into fairly thick slices. This bread is wonderfully moist and chewy, but it’s gluten-free to keep it together. The texture is a little different than regular pumpkin bread, so it’s best held together with thick slices (as you’ll see in the photos).

What people are saying about this healthy pumpkin bread

This Healthy Pumpkin Bread is so moist and moist you don’t even know it’s healthy! The only thing to note is that it’s a little less sweet and oily than regular pumpkin bread. It’s on purpose: because it’s supposed to be healthier! We submitted this recipe to many recipe testers, and here’s what a few had to say:

• “WOW! I never thought this was gluten free! The last pumpkin bread recipe I made with oats was so dense and lacked the pumpkin flavor! Honestly, it only had the oatmeal flavor! This one though – the pumpkin flavor is outstanding and it’s so easy! LOVE IT!”
• “I baked the bread for a party and everyone loved it. I loved how healthy it is with all natural ingredients.”

Vegan variant!

As is, this healthy pumpkin bread is gluten and dairy free. Do you want to make it vegan? You can do that too! Here are some options:

• Substitute flaxseed eggs. Using the recipe below, substitute flaxseed eggs for the eggs: these are simply ground flaxseeds mixed with water. It changes the texture of the bread slightly, but works well as a binder in vegan baked goods.
• Use our vegan pumpkin bread recipe. Try our vegan pumpkin bread: it’s incredibly moist and delicious. It’s made from refined flour, so it’s not gluten-free, but it’s vegan.

Are oats healthy?

One of the main ingredients that makes this up in good health Pumpkin bread is that it is made from oats and not flour. That means you get all the benefits of oats that flour lacks. Here are some of the nutritional benefits of oats (source):

• Oats are rich in protein and fiber. 1 cup of raw oats has 11 grams of protein (about 20% of your daily requirement) and 8 grams of fiber (about 30% of your daily requirement).
• Oats contain beta glucansa type of soluble fiber that has potential benefits such as lower cholesterol, better heart health, and reduced blood sugar and insulin response.
• Oats are very filling: They can reduce appetite and help you eat fewer calories.

For more benefits, check out Oats 101: Nutrition Facts.

Healthier Pumpkin Recipes

When it’s pumpkin season…envy arises! Here are all of our favorite pumpkin recipes:

This Healthy Pumpkin Bread Recipe is…

Vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free. For vegan and plant-based see notes above.