Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years

50 years later: "You kids will never understand the old taste of bananas"

Gros Michel is still grown and sold in Malaysia. And being the region where bananas originate, I am spoiled for choice with regards to which bananas I can choose, from smol 3 inch bananas to bananas the size of the horn of a cattle. Cavendish is bland in comparison.

Well obvoiusly a banana will taste different after a few years, it'll probably taste rotten though. I wouldnt reccomend leaving your bananas somewhere for a few years before eating them.

Isn't that also why artificial banana flavor tastes so different, because they're based on the old type of banana?

aside from being tastier, the Gros Michel was also easier to transport.

Ok if Cavendish bananas are the worst tasting, then the Gros Michel must have been so unbelievably good.

There is a variety of banana called the Goldfinger that I read is tr4 resistant. It is being grown in Australia in response to tr4, but failed in the market years ago. It might be the next banana.

"There are over 1,000 different varieties of bananas, about half of which are inedible." These are the top 10: 1. Cavendish Banana The Cavendish banana is your “typical” banana found at the local grocery store or farmer’s market. They are slightly sweet and have a creamy texture. They have various stages of ripening, from green to yellow, to yellow with brown spots. They’re grown all across Central America, and their production is essential to the economies in these areas. 2. Pisang Raja Pisang Raja bananas are popular in Indonesia. Featuring a yellow to orange color, they taste like honey-flavored custard with a smooth and creamy consistency. They’re slightly smaller than Cavendish Bananas, averaging four to six inches in length. 3. Red Banana As their name suggests, red bananas have a reddish-purple skin. They have light pink colored flesh and are much sweeter and softer than Cavendish bananas. They also have a slight raspberry flavor that makes them absolutely irresistible. 4. Lady Finger Banana Lady Finger bananas, also known as baby bananas, are sweeter and smaller than Cavendish bananas. They’re usually around three inches in length and feature a creamy texture and sweet flavor with notes of honey. 5. Blue Java Banana Blue Java bananas are also known as the ice cream banana due to their sweet vanilla flavor and extreme creaminess. They feature a beautiful blue peel and a white flesh. They’re actually pretty hardy and can grow in colder regions. 6. Plantain Plantains are a subgroup of bananas that are referred to as cooking bananas. They have a high starch content and are typically used in savory dishes. They aren’t typically consumed raw. They’re a food staple in West and Central Africa, the Caribbean islands, and Central America. 7. Manzano Banana The Manzano Banana is sweeter than Cadvendish bananas with a hint of crunchy apple-strawberry flavor. They’re grown in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. They’re short and chubby with think yellow skins that turn black when fully ripe. 8. Burro Banana Burro bananas have a lemony and tangy taste, which makes them one of the most unique types of bananas. They have a flatter, smaller and more square shape than Cavendish bananas. The flesh is creamy white or yellow and is soft with some firmness in the center. 9. Barangan Banana Yellow with small black dots, the Barangan banana has a sweet, mild taste. The flesh is white with no seeds. It’s a popular variety and is eaten as a dessert in many regions across the tropics. 10. Goldfinger Banana The Goldfinger banana was first grown in Honduras by a team of scientists as a pest-resistant banana. It can be cooked when green and eaten raw once fully ripe. It’s similar to the Cavendish banana, with its eventual aim to replace the more susceptible-to-disease variety. https://blog.ediblearrangements.com/different-types-of-bananas/

My girlfriend is from indonesia. When she first came to US and had a cavendish banana she said it tastes bad. She said that cavendish exists in indonesia but it is more expensive than other bananas that taste better so it isn’t very popular. She grew up with gros michel (Indonesia apparently is one of the few countries with gros michel still being cultivated) and other amazing banana varieties. I hope someday I can fly to indonesia and get my hands on gros michel.

“TR-4 will go down as the worst pandemic of the 21st century.” Nice

The thing that really sucks about fusarium is that it stays behind in the soil, so if you replant you're still screwed.

I do not remember the part of Alien where the Alien said "I'm the captain now" but I trust you.

Just another chapter in the best-seller “Monoculture.”

Will we be sad if bananas die because of TR4 ? Yes Will bananas be sad if we die because of Covid ? No

As a banana, I find this terrifyingly more deadly than covid

Ha I was thinking “how much would I have to pay to get a gros michele” and then he says how much he paid. Nice. I will try them one day!!

If we're going to eventually go down the route of Genetically modified Banana's to make them resistant to disease, why not put that effort into bringing back the older tastier nanners instead?

Uhh I was expecting a happy ending but I guess we are just fucked then?

For anyone curious who doesn't want to spend $100 on bananas, get banana runts candy. The candy banana flavor is closer to the original banana flavor than the modern Cavendish. The texture is of course completely wrong, since runts are a hard candy, but the chemical used to create the flavor is the more intense and sweeter style of gros michel.

I swear YouTube always recommends me banana related videos when I’m eating one. Now I want to eat more bananas