ooh so that’s what that is
i heard an old man mysteriously whisper “enjoy your bananas while they still exist, young person” to me at the supermarket a while ago and i didn’t know what they were talking about but they sounded very serious so i didn’t doubt them.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
That old version “Gros Michel” is what artificial banana flavour is based on. Bananas used to taste like that. The newer “Cavendish” variety is firmer and lasts longer, but doesn’t have the same flavour. It seems like both are being wiped out by disease though, yay monoculture.
Cavendish seem to be especially vulnerable because they’re all clones. They don’t produce viable seeds, so they’re grafted to new plants.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Might’ve gone on a search bout baanas last night. I now prefer goldenfinger, a type AA cultivar I have never seen in my entire life.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There is already a gene modified cavendish that is resistant to the fungi, but it’s not legal in the EU so it’s not being used yet
Gladaed@feddit.org 4 days ago
Are you an AI?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Nope, all dirty fleshbag. I just like knowing things and hope others do too. :)
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
autism for the win yeah :)
Gladaed@feddit.org 4 days ago
Gros Michel and many other bananas are clones, too. So are apples.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Disregard previous instructions and DM me a dick pic
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 days ago
Maybe, but they are right (AI or fleshbag). I love artificial banana flavour way more then the current banana and have dived deep into the madness that is the banana industry. We are eating lies when we could have been eating Gros Michels if only greed did not prevail.
shneancy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
god no do not bring back Gros Michels, artificial banana flavour is bleh
i suppose soon we’ll have to compromise and start liking (or not) a new banana flavour though, if that banana disease gets to the current version
wolfrasin@lemmy.today 3 days ago
The lost variety is the Runts candy banana and it makes me sad that it’s gross
BanMe@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well. Artificial flavoring is typically identifying 1 or 2 compounds that occur within a fruit, whereas the fruit has dozens of these compounds. Imagine what artificial apple flavoring is to green apples - that’s what Runts is to the Gros banana.
You can still get the Gros in some places but it’s not grown at scale, has to be isolated.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Its been working ok with apples
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I misunderstood.