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Banana (sopuli.xyz)
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Banana is peak food engineering. - Comes in its own wrapper. 100% portable. Zero mess. - Zero prep, zero cleanup. - Instant energy. - High potassium. - Cheap Name one bad thing about it. You can't. Banana wins. Pack it up.
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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).

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year 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.

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