“…Results of the present work showed that acceptance of cakes and panettones, with or without banana peel, presented good average acceptance, varying from 7.0 to 7.8, which in the 9-point scale means that consumers ranged from slightly liked to liked very much. Similar results were found for cereal bars, breads, pasta, biscuits, chicken sausages and fish patties (Carvalho and Conti-Silva, 2018; Zaini et al ., 2019, 2020; Segura-Badilla et al ., 2022), indicating that the addition of banana peel to the formulation is possible. The banana peel in cakes did not affect acceptance or panettone with banana peel ( p > 0.05), but it did reduce the acceptance of panettones without banana peel ( p < 0.05).…”