Why Banana Flavoured Foods Don't Taste Like Banana
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2023
- Why Banana Flavoured Foods Don't Taste Like Banana
Why don't banana flavoured foods taste anything like bananas? Well, bananas haven't always tasted the same as they do now. If you bought a banana in the early 1900s, it's likely that you were buying the fatter more flavourful cousin of our modern banana known as the Gros Michel, which translates in English to Big Mike. That Banana flavour you taste in milkshakes and sweets is isoamyl acetate a compound that is produced by ripening fruit and in particular from Big Mike. But then in the 1950s came the Panama disease, a fungus that completely wiped Big Mike off the planet. So what are these? This is the Superman of Panama Disease resistance, the Cavendish banana. But these have drastically different flavour from Big Mike, mainly due to their significantly lower levels of isoamyl acetate, making it taste completely different from banana flavoured foods. But why don't banana flavoured foods taste anything like bananas? If you bought a banana in the early 1900s, it's highly likely that you were buying the far more flavourful cousin of our modern banana known as the Grosse Michel, which translates into English as Big Mike. That banana flavour you taste in milkshakes and sweets is isoamyl acetate. A compound is naturally produced by ripening fruit and in particular from Big Mike. - Розваги
“big mike” bananas still exist. They are grown on a really small scale though.
Yeah, and they’re very expensive
So small mike then?
@@CrusadingBacon167 more like endangered Mike 😔
@@cannonballjenkins2757 😔
small mikes are good very tart
So your telling me that it’s actually the bananas today that don’t taste like bananas
Yepp
well for what it seems that is a yes
Yes and no they don't taste like bananas used to tastes like because it's a different variety of bananas and humans may have to switch to a different species of bananas again because Cavendish has been shown to be vulnerable to several plant-based diseases that could wipe out the Cavendish variety because well they're all clones of each other
And, they're loosing their taste slowly. Originally, these tasted much closer to the Big Mike's, but over time they lost their flavor.
Funny thing is, I got covid last year and it really messed up my sense of smell, so I can taste the banana in bananas quite well
big mike still doesn't taste like banana flavoured food 💀
Exactly! I am amazed of the big overstatement of this video. It tastes a bit different but pretty much the same as the Cavendish. It's just a bit fuller and juicier.
@Unknown User no he didn't tf?
💀
Bruv really spent $50+ on a bana💀
Hey is that a Big Mike in your pocket or are you just happy to see me 🤣🤣
SO YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT IT’S NOT THAT THEY DON’T TASTE LIKE BANANAS, ITS THAT BANANAS DON’T TASTE LIKE BANANAS??
Exactly! A fungus killed off most big mikes unfortunately ☹️ They’re still grown ofc, just very expensive and on a small scale. Talking 100 bucks for a small box of em
That's bananas
Bananas taste like bananas, because they are bananas, but banana-flavored stuff tastes like big banana, which is banana but not as banana as the banana
@@gabrielbarros493 huh
Um yes
Actually the the 2nd banana type is vulnerable to an even worse fungus that could entirely wipe out bananas, so scientists are currently engineering the original "big mike" variant to resist the panama fungus and it's already resistant to this new fungus and will most likely almost entirely replace the current bananas in market, so soon we may have two banana flavors
wait really? thats really cool!
The poor bananas tho, they constantly getting targeted to near extinction
How about they breed the two bananas until they get one resistant to both fungus ?
@@Jaajsuke1 A new one will then show up. That's the cycle of life. A constant arms race.
A banana Republic arms race
I love how UA-cam makes you watch a video 3 times just to see the half second of an image or text on screen you missed. It's so much easier than rewinding or a progress bar.
Yep and Shorts don't loop smoothly anymore. I don't know why creators still do this then.
I can rewind my reels to any point 😂 sucks for you
@@vretho yes realised this a couple weekd ago 😊😊
@@vretho Yep on PC, doesn't work on mobile.
@@tomaccino it works on mobile
that explains why i’m allergic to bananas but not the flavored foods
Summary:
Why don't banana flavored foods taste like banana?
Well, even bananas don't taste like bananas
are u eating the wrong bananas
@@itsmeabdul_1147 yeah the real bananas are expensive
Hey, Vsauce Michael here-
@@Krazi_AJ *insert Vsauce music...*
they're not gone, they still exist. they just can't be put into massive plantations, or they die.
Yes, they are in plantations in Spain, more exactly in the Canary Islands.
They are easily available in massive plantations. The problem is that Panama disease is still around. That being said, it isn't that insane to believe that we can make a cure for it.
@@bransonwalter5588 "They are easily available in massive plantations." no they are not, because, like you said, Panama disease is still around, and plantations are easily susceptible to it, as all banana trees of a type of bananas are genetically the same, making it impossible to plant in huge swaths, unless you want to watch them all die within a year.'and we can't create a cure for Panama disease because it is a particularly fast evolving fungi that resists everything we throw at it.
Oh 😭
Why not genetically engineer it to be disease resistant? Then we can bring back this variety commercially.
YOOO, I just watched the speed running short of this sec 3 seconds ago. Basically the old bananas that we have apparently were better than the one we have now, but they got extinct
he went from explaining 200 pumps to how banana tastes 😂😂
Bro idk maybe I'm just tired as shit but fucking "big mike" had me dying
Me too😂😂
Sounds like a pornstar's name
Same lol
Sounds like a prisoner's name...just pray you aren't in the same cell as him 👀😂
DAMN bros tired
the fact that a parasite can just Get Rid Of A Food is genuinely scary
It's not even nature's fault, the big producers like Chiquita had thousands of clones next to each other. Not even the same breed, just clones. There was no genetic diversity, which means asking for them all to die basically. Also the banana variety could be resurrected at any time if the big growers just cleaned their contaminated dirt, which is a one time process. They are just too very so instead they've decided to put in more monocultures doomed to fail instead of fixing their own mistakes that lead to this problem.
It was due to an lack of genetic diversity in the bananas caused by bananas having no seeds, so we basically cloned them. People are worrying about the Cavendish for the same reason, and in the not so far future bananas, as we see them, might go extinct if we do nothing.
just some of the ol' 15 seconds of nuclear radiation to diverse the gene pool
@@yuukanee you jest but that was an older method of genetic modification. Just hope you get the trait you want. Not terribly effective, so transgenic organisms (GMOs) were used instead once it became possible. Gene guns are cool too.
It's because we selectively bred over Generations bananas to be seedless, so the only way to get more banana trees is to grafted them or essentially clone them.
This a problem with many fruits today we wanted seedless version so bad that we ended up destroying what allowed them to adapt, fun fact we have yet to be able to make a seedless Apple because no matter the type of apple seeds come from it will be a different Apple so if you ever look at apple tree at an orchard or Home Improvement store where they sell them it's usually a tree that has had branches grafted onto it so you can actually get consistent apples.
If you're in a location that you can grow bananas, try growing them yourself. They do taste like the candy. I'd recommend the dwarf cavendish variety.
Finally a UA-cam short that packs information into its time making it a great video!!!
There is no information here big Mike still exists
Uh, I actually left with more question than answer after this short
And yet people hate the flavor because it tastes "fake." But then, they also think mint tastes like toothpaste and cherry syrup tastes like cold medicine.
Never understood why people hated toothpaste flavor, maybe I'm weird but I quite like it.
@@falcon_arkaig then eat it
I love toothpaste flavour and mint doesn’t taste like it, especially if it’s GREEN mint in ice cream
I don't hate it cause it tastes fake. I just apparently don't like banana flavor 😅
@@void4713 don't need to eat something to like the taste. Weirdo
Also, mass produced Cavendish bananas have even less flavour. In my town in Mexico I buy my bananas from the local street market and they are delicious, though smaller and uglier. The ones from the supermarket are all big and pretty but they taste like grass
In my city in Mexico, I buy them at the supermarket, and they sell red bananas
Same here in Brazil. The store bought bananas are super bland, while the ones grown in our backyard are much more tasty and firm.
All mass produced fruit are like that. Ever tried wilde raspberries or even blueberries? Those things are fantastic
@@danielb3573 i have a blackberry vine at home. It's delicious
What kind of grass you eating that taste like a banana. I would make a salad out of that shit
This question had a much more interesting answer then I was expecting
"Big mike is delicious"
"Wait what?"
"The gros michel"
"Oh okay"
I like the idea that our artificial bannana flavour is actually preserving the flavour of an older version of bannana.
I'm gonna need someone to taste test artificial banana next to bigMike, or I'm gonna assume this is just a theory
Nope, those candies do taste like the banana 🍌.
But it's inherently not true. Cavendishes and the Gros Michel taste nearly identical
and giving you 7 types of cancer along w it
@@universenerddcan I trust you? I don't wanna Google it 😔
Poor Big Mike. He never knew what hit em. RIP Big Mike.
It ain't gone, just not commercially viable
Big mike appearantly still alive he jusr got cucked by cavendish.
Also what a bullshit name "cavendish"
If we gonna call its predecessor big mike atleast call the new one "long john" or some shit.
Like bruh. I would have named it "never sick mike" as it rhymes with "big mike"
Fuck it. Lets call cavendish "curvy murphy"
Why? Dont question just normalize it
@@riddler356_fuck_you yeah my aunt grows em
Big mike is still going strong but now it’s endangered little mike
Waltuh
Lol just imagine your friends say: i took 6inches of big Mike today 💀
"big mike"
*checks the comments*
They are still grown today by small-scale farmers. In Uganda they still sell them and grow them but they call them the "bogoya"
Reminded me of pastah sempa from the why ah u gey video
in Indonesia too, but there are too many kinds of banana here
Jhon Wick Bogoya?
@@catabakies69here in my country as well we have so many types of banana that I can barely tell them apart but the one he's talking about is my least fav 😂😂
Idk why it makes me throw up everytime I eat them
Yobogoya!
This one will for sure go viral Reiss. Interesting choice of topic.
If you want more insight, check out a video with the same topic over at Johnny Harris
What about grape flavor 🤔
It's an already widely circulated misconception. The flavor of "big mike" bananas is very similar but stronger. All bananas get their flavors from a variety of compounds in differing amounts. Banana flavored candy uses only one of those compounds, and it's present in all varieties of banana.
The one short/TikTok where I feel like I didn’t completely waste my time
"Fortnite's Storm Surge mechanic"
"Why banana flavours don't taste like bananas"
Same UA-camr.
As a Brazilian who lived in the U.S for 1.5 years I can affirm that bananas in the U.S have little to no taste compared to varieties we have here in Brazil such as “banana prata” and “banana maçã”
Man I wish food from America wasn’t so shit. I had a feeling real food was reserved for rich elites but this kinda confirms it.
@@TwistedFireX wow takes very little to confirm your presuppositions 😂😂😂😂
@@TwistedFireX Man I, what? "Elites" get overcharged for food at their own front door but then significantly poorer people in, say, Mexico, have access to REAL nutrition far cheaper. There's going to be different dynamics in every nation - the avg wage plays a factor.
I'm an Englishman and I stayed in the USA for 3 months with a very rich family.
I couldn't afford to pay Kroger prices and those products had all sorts of nonsense in it.
Found a halaal food market 15min drive away. There was actually food I could digest here at prices I could afford.
tl;dr look around a bit if you're in the USA.
@@TwistedFireX Most of the good food is kept away by lack of health regulations (like putting corn syrup or sugar in something that shouldn't even be sweet)
This one is just a consequence of genetically nearly identical plants being more endangered by diseases
A maioria de nossos alimentos são bem melhores doq as do Estados Unidos na minha opinião.
Big Mike is common South East asia, called pisang ambon in Indonesia and I've tasted them before. I don't think they tasted like artificial banana flavor tho haha
They taste like the artificial one ngl
Bro in Philippines we call them saging lakatan what he describe of big mike is so common in southeast asia
Wait no way? I’ll try some tomorrow lmao thanks for letting me know
yeah lmao, but i never knew big mike is pisang ambon
yeah Big Mike is common in Myanmar too. We call it phigyan.
Older model of banana. Artificial flavor is based off of that.
big mike is what i’d name my banana. if my name was mike
“Bro what are you eating”
“Uhmmmm I only know the English translation..”
“Soooo what’s it called?”
“Big Mike”
“Wha-“
Big mike should be a mushroom
I thought you were straight 😮
Obama eats a Gros Michelle several times a week
This is the first time in my life being mad at a plant fungus. CMONNNNNNNNN 🥺
if you like ash trees they're the next to go
Not really a fun-guy huh
I apologize for my words and actions,now I will commit die
Fungii aren't plant tho
@@laurieb348 "Plant fungus" meaning a fungus that is harmful to plants
You can still find Big Mike, but it's gonna cost ya
I remember making banana flavor out of vinyl gloves in high school
Girl: I really want that big Mike!
Mike: Wooo! Bet!
*in jail*
Mike: *SHE SAID SHE WANTED MY BIG MIKE!*
shorts creators when they put the word "but" at the end of the short to create the least clever and most transparent loop trick of all time: "yeah, it's big brain time"
Loop videos where cool and all in the start but now they getting rather... repetitive
As an south-asian person, my parents and relatives buy "big mike" a lot because it reminds them of back home where "big mike" can be found.
Banana antibiotic were a delicacy as a kid. Strong extint banana flavour
What if scientists were to breed the banana to taste more like the old one
We have these banana trees that grow wild here in Hawaiʻi and they produce a banana that is shorter in length, but much girthier than their Central American counterparts...and their contents aren't nearly as mushy, it's a lot more firm, it's considerably sweeter, and even when the outside goes brown, the contents inside are perfectly fine and still quite firm. We call them Apple bananas and you can find them on the side of the road or in many backyards.
Big Mike the return????? What are they called, I need to know
@@honeybeesami6454 Hehe. I mentioned it in my last sentence...they're called Apple bananas. 😄
@@honeybeesami6454 If you ever come to Hawaiʻi, I hope you get to try all of our fruits...our mangoes, papayas, pineapples, and apple bananas are considerably sweeter than their mainland counterparts. 😄
@@SeanShimamoto cool. It's expensive and I don't like bugs but I might go sometime... eventually.
Those sound amazing I hate the mushy bananas
I only learned this a couple days ago because of an asignment about the united fruit company, the company that took over a country, and still exists today
You mean Chiquita banana? Haha that's who united fruit is now.
I learned this from sam
Gros Michel (Big Mike) are still grown, however only on a very small scale, mostly on islands.
The fungus can last an extremely long time in the ground, so when a banana plantation is contaminated once, gros michel will basically never be able to grow there again.
you can order Gros Michel bananas online, but they cost a lot due to how expensive it is to ensure they don't get infected by the fungus.
I’m convinced if everyone knew the history of bananas, we’d never talk about anything else.
They’re not extinct, my grandma grows some in her remote Amazonian farm.
And my great great grandma went skydiving with Elon musk while bringing back the dodo bird from extinction.
@@sectorsmash4245 💀💀
Let's rephrase that it's extinct to the mass Market because plantations were there being grown disease came through and wiped them out thus a new variety was sought out that was more resistant to that disease and was easy to mass-produce
@@sectorsmash4245 ones completely realistic and believable and the other is plain outlandish 💀
@@sectorsmash4245 he might not be lying since big mikes aren't extinct in fact they are common in South Asia
WE NEED TO REVIEVE BIG MIKEI!!!!
They weren't completely wiped out, they still exist, but are a pain and are expensive to get your hands on in the US
So banana flavour tastes more like a banana than an actual banana?
Wild
The seeds in bannas used to be huge so they didn't even look edible
I think it was the OG banana 🍌
The thing I like about the Cavendish bananas is that when they are cooked they have a nutty flavor to it.
Modern bananas literally kill every other flavor in a fruit smoothie, imagine a big mikes in one 😭
Luckily you can still buy big mikes for the small price of 100$ for a small box! Not kidding either lol, looked it up. Genuine prices here. Expensive as shit..they are endangered tho so
Big mike still exists, my grandma had a farm for big Mike's when I was younger
respect to the people who were able to eat big mike bananas before they got dusted
Waiting for the NileRed tutorial on how to extract banana flavoring so I can just have that all the time
First we use nitro glycerin...
Another reason is also that this compound is one of many compounds responsible for the flavour.
But like mentioned in the video, the earlier version of the banana was high in this one compound, so the association for us was very high, but even they probably thought there was "something off" about that smell, because all the nuance was missing.
It's the same with most artificial tastes and smells, they are a correct recreation or approximation of one compound only.
Completely perfectly recreating a smell would be incredibly hard, especially since we often can't even identify all the compounds responsible for a nature-products smell and taste.
This explains why I like banana candy but not actual bananas
So Banana Flavor is actualy closer to the OG Banana than the Bananas you can buy at the store
I'm from Panama and i can confirm we are a banana killer disease. But tbh the banana here it's quite tasty and quite similar to banana flavored foods. I've eaten bananas in other countries and they taste so simple and plain compared to our bananas it's so weird
I love artificial banana flavor. I think I'm the only one in the world.
You are not the only one me to!
Yeah man artificial banana club
I hate actual bananas, but banana flavored stuff slaps.
Y'all weird
@@redblueplayer221 no I'm not
we need to use genetic engineering to bring back these bananas
Loved the video, great subject 👍
For those saying gros Michel grow on a small scale....they're actually really popular.......or at least in Nigeria
Same thing in Venezuela
This is the video I never knew I needed to watch 😂
What a shame the big Mike isn't around today, I would love eating a banana that tastes like banana candy.
you don’t know bananas until you’ve been to the tropics.
I have been there my whole entire life
Where I'm from, we have like 10 types of banana. Each of them utterly different in taste from each other. So i never understood the "banana flavour"anyway.
Where you from?
As someone who lives in panama i see this as an absolute win
You can still find Big Mike Bananas growing in a few small carribean islands
Cavendish bananas are also impacted by Panama disease and do widely affect banana plantations. They're currently working on creating a breed between Cavendish and seeded wild bananas because the wild bananas are unaffected by Panama disease
I am most definitely calling bananas "big mike" now
You can also give your pp "Big Mike" Nickname
Not wiped out at all. lack of homework got you there...
"Gros Michel" also had a longer shelf-life, which is the reason bananas became so popular. RIP the banana-flavored banana.
So, I'm from southeast asia(Viet nam), and I just realized that I eat these, or at least a variety of these all the time, it's as common as the long ones.
I can confirm that it is much, much, sweater and more banana'y than the long cavendish. It also has a much softer, almost creamy texture. And it has less starchiness as well. More of a pain to peel though
Though sometimes I do like cavendish because it's more satisfying and firmer texture.
Ý bạn là chuối hương hả?
@@toanhien494 nếu mình không lầm thì chuối hương là cavendish, chuối cau là gros michel
I wonder if anyone has tried to recreate the old bananas. I mean, they're both derived from the same wild plant, aren't they? Just after extensive domestication and selection.
Unless current bananas and the extinct bananas were domesticated from completely separate species and the old banana parent species has also gone extinct
I just have no idea how long it would take to recreate the old version. And if it isn't profitable, there are very few people with the resources necessary that would be willing to bring it back.
They’re still grown, just very expensive and on a small scale. Talking 100 bucks for a small box of em
These are the best bananas you have ever tasted. You can still get Gros Michel in Jamaica. I couldn't believe it when I first tasted one.
I will never think about banana the same way ever again.
There are lots of bananas for sale in the US, they're just not common in large-chain grocery stores. Try looking in a Mexican or Asian grocery store. My local grocery store has small bananas with thick peels that taste like mangos.
I guess the Cavendish Laboratory did some genetic modding with the Big Mikey
We used be talking about Fortnite and now we are talking about artificial bananas
And now Cavendish have their own blight that is forcing us to move on to yet another different banana
Banana flavoured food taste better than bananas
So you're telling me, we've regressed in terms of bananas
Petition to bring Big Mike back on a large scale
We grew these at the farm and they still growing they don’t make bananas every year but they are pretty good
the devs didnt update the older banana flavour version
That is the best rewind transition I've so far viewed/listened to 👍
"I don't rly like bananas, they aren't flavourful..."
"Oh you should try Big Mike, it's so flavourful and juic- I CAN EXPLAIN"
"Mike from the neighborhood? Yeah no you can stick to that, I'll just eat regular bananas."
Love this new channek keep going 👍👍
1940s kids remember when we all froze banana in the fridge so it tasted like spongebob ice cream cuz mom wont let us buy it, time flies 😔
Well that explains why I've always felt meh about the taste of bananas but love the taste of banana flavored candy.
My father is from India, he used to plant those kind of bananas! They used the leaves from those trees as plates.
To say that they are gone is just completely untrue. Hell, I’ve seen some in person a few times. Granted, they were imported and I didn’t like them; but still.
Am Canadian btw.
Hmm… first of all I didn’t know banana flavor taste different then banana anymore then any other artificial flavor taste different, but now you have me thinking I’m missing out on an extinct banana
Screw bringing back the wooly mammoth. Bring back big mike!
Why don't we just engineer big Mike banana back into existence but also find a way to keep the disease resistance 🤷🏾♂️
great, now I feel sad that I wasn't alive to taste the gros michel banana
So basically, artificially banana flavored foods, taste more like a banana than the banana that we eat today?
Those were the best tasting bananas ever.
Like sailors navigating by the light of stars that died millions of years ago but whose light still reaches Earth, we base our perception on a thing which no longer exists.
The region i live in Brazil it's known to have the sweetest bananas in the world, something about the land they plant, but yeah, they're amazing
Gros michele still exist and can be ordered from specialty growers..its amazing
Why did this suddenly give me the irresistible urge to eat a banana