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Well.

We wont have bananas that taste any good. The ones we eat are selectively bred to become seedless, and are thereby infertile, and must be cloned to be propagated.

The species would still exist, but we’d have to start over with developing a plant that produces something edible.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I would love to try two different bananas I have only ever read about:

The one that supposedly tastes like vanilla pudding

The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.
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- AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.
  
  That’s actually a myth. See Wikipedia.
  
  The Gros Michel has a higher concentration of isoamyl acetate, the ester commonly used for “banana” food flavoring, than the Cavendish.[12] This higher concentration is responsible for the myth that banana flavoring was based on the Gros Michel, but artificial banana flavor was not based on any specific cultivar.
  
  Here’s a longer piece on just that subject.
  
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XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

We wont have bananas that taste any good.
Cavendish bananas aren’t the only varieties of bananas that taste good. For example Lakatan and Latundan taste good raw. It’s just they aren’t hardy enough for long-term storage and export.

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- MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  It’s just that most of the time they aren’t feasible for export.
  
  I didn’t know that.
  
  Maybe it would be more accurate to say we won’t have an edible banana that is suitable for large-scale industrial production.
  
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