# Salted Frozen Banana Sweets These Salted Chocolate Banana Bites Make Great Snacks By Lacey-Jane Walsh | Published 2013-06-08 | Lifestyle Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/chocolate-banana References: [gimmesomeoven](http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/salted-chocolate-frozen-banana-bites/) These delightful frozen chocolate banana treats from Gimmie Some Oven are the perfect snack for hot summer days. Bananas are everyone’s favorite high-potassium fruit. Combining this healthy snack with chocolate and a little salt certainly brings up the calorie count, but it also creates an incredible [frozen treat](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/del-monte-freeze-pops). The list of ingredients for this fantastic chocolaty recipe is extremely short. You simply need three bananas, coarse sea salt, toothpicks and magic shell, which you make using [dark chocolate and coconut oil](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/biona-snacks). The process for making this delicious snack isn’t complicated so there’s really no excuse for banana lovers not to try it. If it's going to be a very hot summer, why not cool down with these delectable [chocolate frozen banana bites](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fatso-drunkn-monkey)? This summer treat recipe cleverly combines sweet and salt flavors for an unsurprisingly delicious result. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 4.5/10 - Popularity: 54% | Activity: 72% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 30% men, 70% women - Primary generations: Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Lifestyle](https://www.trendhunter.com/lifestyle) > [Food](https://www.trendhunter.com/food) ## Key Themes ### Key Themes Behind This Trend - **Healthy Treats:** Creating frozen treats using healthier ingredients like bananas and dark chocolate presents an opportunity for the healthy snacks industry to cater to health-conscious consumers. - **Sweet-salty Combinations:** The growing popularity of sweet-salty flavor combinations, as seen in salted chocolate banana bites, opens up innovation opportunities for the food and beverage industry to create unique and indulgent products. - **Simple Snack Recipes:** The demand for easy and quick snack recipes like frozen banana bites calls for disruptive innovation in the recipe-sharing platforms and kitchen appliance industries to provide convenient solutions for busy individuals. ### Where This Applies - **Healthy Snacks:** The healthy snacks industry can leverage the trend of using bananas and dark chocolate to create innovative frozen treats that cater to health-conscious consumers. - **Food and Beverage:** The food and beverage industry has an opportunity to explore and develop new products that incorporate the popular sweet-salty flavor combination, inspired by salted chocolate banana bites. - **Recipe Sharing Platforms:** Recipe sharing platforms can adapt and provide more simple and easy-to-follow snack recipes like frozen banana bites to meet the demand for quick and convenient homemade snacks. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Frozen Chocolate Banana Treats](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/milk-chocolate-peanut-butter-banana.md) - [Frozen Chocolate Banana Slices](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/reeses-frozen-fruit-banana-slices.md) - [Dipped Frozen Banana Bites](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/real-banana-bites.md) - [Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Bananas](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/real-frozen-bananas.md) - [PB&J-Inspired Frozen Snacks](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/peanut-butter-strawberry.md) - [Frozen Chocolate Peanut Bananas](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tru-fru-2.md) - [Fruit-Forward Chocolate Treats](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tru-fru-1.md) - [Dark Chocolate Banana Bites](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/dark-chocolate-banana-bites.md) - [Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Grapes](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/chocolate-dipped-frozen-grapes.md)