{"id":943,"date":"2022-04-22T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=943"},"modified":"2022-04-22T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:06:09","slug":"going-bananas-why-does-banana-candy-taste-so-artificial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/going-bananas-why-does-banana-candy-taste-so-artificial\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Bananas: Why Does Banana Candy Taste So &#8216;Artificial&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Banana Flavoring Doesn&#039;t Taste Like Bananas #shorts\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oh5kN0zlZzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;travelling back in time&#8217; 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&#8217;t taste the same!<\/p>\n<p>Humans have been adjusting, selectively breeding, and changing plants for hundreds of years! Check out what bananas used to look like below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.pri.org\/s3fs-public\/styles\/open_graph\/public\/story\/images\/banana%20disease%201.png?itok=jIR9Jd3H\" alt=\"That banana you eat with your breakfast may become a lot harder to find \u2014  and more expensive | The World from PRX\" width=\"525\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;travelling back in time&#8217; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/going-bananas-why-does-banana-candy-taste-so-artificial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going Bananas: Why Does Banana Candy Taste So &#8216;Artificial&#8217;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}