Have you ever noticed that banana flavoured things taste NOTHING like real, fresh bananas? Well, every time you bite into a banana-flavoured candy, you are actually ‘travelling back in time’ to taste a species of banana that is now extinct! The flavouring is based on the Gros Michel species of bananas, which were wiped out many years ago by a plague. The bananas we eat today are a different species, which don’t taste the same!
Humans have been adjusting, selectively breeding, and changing plants for hundreds of years! Check out what bananas used to look like below:
