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Fun fact:
All banana flavoring is based on the Gros Michel banana, which was blasted off the market fifty years ago by a highly infectious blight, and not the Cavendish, which is what we eat now, and will also be blasted off the market within twenty years.
The Gros Michel was much tastier than the Cavendish we have now.
Gros Michel
Cavendish
Panama disease
Panama disease is a plant disease of the roots of banana plants. It is a type of Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum. The pathogen is resistant to fungicide and cannot be controlled chemically.
During the 1950s, Panama disease wiped out most commercial Gros Michel banana production. The Gros Michel banana was the dominant cultivar of bananas, and the blight inflicted enormous costs and forced producers to switch to other, disease-resistant cultivars. New strains of Panama disease currently threaten the production of today's most popular cultivar, Cavendish.
That's sad, the way candy banana tastes is delicious