Why Banana-Flavored Things Don’t Taste Like Bananas 🍌

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Have you ever wondered why Banana flavored foods and candy don’t really taste like actual bananas? Well, the reason behind this is kind of surprising. You see, we normally eat Cavendish bananas from grocery stores, but banana-flavored foods don’t come from Cavendish bananas. The flavor comes from the extinct Gros Michel banana, which tastes and smells more banana-y. So companies use this extinct banana’s flavor to make banana-flavored foods taste more like bananas than actual bananas. While there are locally grown Gros Michel bananas, they were more prevalent in the 1960s than the present. So flavor scientists extracted isoamyl acetate to recreate the Gros Michel flavor for candies like Laffy Taffy, Runts, and Hi-Chew. It's even used in milk and cereal.

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Gros Michel bananas are not actually extinct, they are very scarce though. They used to be the typical banana only a few years ago, and there was a disease that wiped out so many plants and that is why they switched to a new kind of banana, "cavendish". Gros Michel is said to be a lot sweeter than cavendish.

[RedBlade]

"These 4 inches of sweetness were creamier and more fragrant than the bananas we have today" 💀
Anyways great video! Keep it up! 💖

[the_eHermit]

We still have these tiny bananas in South Africa

[anonymousx]

Also, artificially grown bananas are all pretty much identical, making them very suceptible to pests and fungi and that is one of the reasons why the old banana can't be used anymore after there was an outbreak. The same risk is with modern bananas.
It's because to grow a banana plant you don't actually use the seed of the banana (which modern bananas don't even have anymore due to cultivation) but wait for the underground stem of the banana, the rhizome, to spread, so a second bud forms near the original plant, which can be taken and replanted.

The cavendish could at one point be replaced again.

[triplemarc]

This is a common misconception and is actually completely false. Banana-flavored candy was not intended to mimic the taste of the Gros Michel banana. It tastes different from bananas because it is mainly flavored with only one of the many flavor compounds a banana has, isoamyl acetate, which is also found in a wide variety of fruits and fermented beverages.

[nordicgypsy_]

united fruit company also played a role

[SundownerAB]

My mom fride the bananas when it's soft and put brown sugar so it would be sticky and sweet

[littleent]

The gros Michel went extinct because of a Fungus people decided to switch to Cavendish bananas

[supersmoother]

So basically banana flavored things are flavored by the better banana

[ShanAlid]

We have those bananas in the Philippines

[Trailen]

If it's extinct how are they used?

[Meatballguy]

They dont taste like bananas they taste like a-

[anitamccombs]

How is it extinct if they are using this flavor ? Am I missing something???

[IamcountachYT]

But dylan jardon didn't say it was extinct

[Harveste]

Then how do they still have the og flavor when the og bananas are extinct

[siavaomuliau]

THOSE EXTINCT BANANAS ARE ALL AROUND AMERICAN SAMOA ON THE MOUNTAINS

[kingstonthefluffyball]

Wait if those bananas are extinct then how do we have the flavour

[fliam]

this is really similar to another YouTuber. kinda suspicious

[copyandpaste]

You literally stole this exact idea and even put the same candies as dylanjordan seriously?