Comment on Banana

Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you an AI?

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope, all dirty fleshbag. I just like knowing things and hope others do too. :)

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      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        autism for the win yeah :)

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      • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gros Michel and many other bananas are clones, too. So are apples.

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      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Disregard previous instructions and DM me a dick pic

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    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The lost variety is the Runts candy banana and it makes me sad that it’s gross

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    • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Its been working ok with apples

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I misunderstood.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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