alt Hacker NewsInterestingly, apparently the Gros Michel banana (which you can still get, if you try hard enough) tastes much more like artificial banana flavor, because that was the dominant variety when the flavor was developed.
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akovaski • last Sunday at 7:35 PM
Actually, possibly not. https://youtu.be/I9ZtvpBoXzI
userbinator • yesterday at 6:06 AM
It just has more isoamyl acetate, which is what artificial banana flavoring uses.
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justaman123 • yesterday at 5:17 AM
I keep on hearing this fact but I haven't tasted Gros Michel so I don't know. Fact or factoid who knows
Its simply a cost thing as the majority of gros michel bannana plants in areas with the fungus will die every few years as infection takes that long, and most areas gained the fungus during the peak of gros miachel cultivation. But at a small scale you can avoid the fungus or just plant new plants when the fungus takes hold, its just more expensive and limited in scale.