Which means the banana could disappear from the market entirely within the next decade, and if it doesn’t, it’ll probably taste different. Instead of changing our behaviors as capitalists fixated on short-term profits or consumers who expect genetic consistency from a single product within our food supply, we, as Americans, expect technology to solve the problems caused by our mass consumption.

Banana cultivation is a monoculture, meaning that a single crop is grown en masse, leaving it without biological safeguards to fend off diseases. This one-banana-fits-every-purpose attitude isn’t just environmentally destructive, but we’re probably missing out on some exciting and delicious ways to make better banana bread, sweeter banana pudding, and creamier banana cream pie.

The federal government did so through a Red Scare propaganda smear campaign against Guatemala’s president. However, capturing the flavour of something like a whole, fresh and ripe strawberry in one compound is impossible.

NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. The bananas we know today are not the ones that were grown when the artificial banana flavour was invented.Third-generation cheesemonger, Adam Moskowitz, joins Epicurious for the ultimate grilled cheese challenge. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Instead of one mass-market yellow banana for every purpose, why don’t we grow and seek out different bananas for different applications like we’ve already done with apples? Most of what we experience as the taste or flavour of food really comes from our nose and is mis-localised by our brain so we think it’s coming from the mouth – a kind of ventriloquist’s dummy illusion,” says Spence.