• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    20 hours ago

    I would love to try two different bananas I have only ever read about:

    • The one that supposedly tastes like vanilla pudding

    • The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.

    Unlike that artificial strawberry flavor that sucks compared to actual strawberries, I quite like the artificial banana flavor of candy over an actual banana (which, to me, barely has a flavor at all).

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      19 hours ago

      The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.

      That’s actually a myth. See Wikipedia.

      The Gros Michel has a higher concentration of isoamyl acetate, the ester commonly used for “banana” food flavoring, than the Cavendish.[12] This higher concentration is responsible for the myth that banana flavoring was based on the Gros Michel, but artificial banana flavor was not based on any specific cultivar.

      Here’s a longer piece on just that subject.