Name: Why Banana Flavoring Doesn't Taste Like Bananas #shorts
Uploaded: 2021-03-15T19:15:11.000Z
Duration: 44 s
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- Have you ever wondered why banana flavoring

and candy or medicine tastes nothing like an actual banana?

when bananas were first being introduced to America

but one became super popular called the Gros Michel.

of fruit and was easy to ship all around the world.

And that is what artificial banana flavor

But the problem was decades later in the 1950s

a fungal disease basically destroyed that entire species.

And so as a result, this guy, the Cavendish became popular

because it was resistant to that fungal disease.

So every single time you taste banana flavoring,

you're actually tasting a banana of the past.