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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago

Well.

We wont have bananas that taste any good. The ones we eat are selectively bred to become seedless, and are thereby infertile, and must be cloned to be propagated.

The species would still exist, but we'd have to start over with developing a plant that produces something edible.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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).

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days 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.

[-] XiELEd@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We wont have bananas that taste any good.

Cavendish bananas aren't the only varieties of bananas that taste good. For example Lakatan and Latundan taste good raw. It's just that most of the time they aren't feasible for export.