Why banana flavoured products does not taste like banana?
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They do. The problem is that bananas don’t taste like bananas.
Okay, so they do. But they don’t taste like how bananas used to taste.
We’re maybe more used to this idea with apples and potatoes. You get different varieties of apples, and different varieties of potatoes. Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, etc. Bananas have different varieties too. But for a good time, the only bananas that westerners are were Gros Michels. Then a banana disease came along (or was it a bug? I can’t remember) which made it really hard to grow these in large quantities. So we switched to the Cavendish banana, a hardier variety. Problem is they didn’t taste as sweet, and all the banana-flavoured stuff was kept the same. So now banana flavouring tastes more banana than bananas.
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