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Cavendish bananas face extinction and not all experts agree on how to save it
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Fun fact - artificial banana flavoring tastes more like the Gros Michel banana. So when you have banana flavored candy, you are tasting what a banana used to taste like back when the Gros Michel was the dominant banana variety.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/why-dont-banana-candies-taste-like-real-bananas/
Gros Michel bananas just taste like Cavendish bananas, but stronger.
Great video! Thank you.