Gros Michel is still grown and sold in Malaysia. And being the region where bananas originate, I am spoiled for choice with regards to which bananas I can choose, from smol 3 inch bananas to bananas the size of the horn of a cattle. Cavendish is bland in comparison.
I only know that bananas in the canary islands taste far better than the ones I can buy at home. They are also of the smaller variety, but no idea what exact type they are...
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There is a variety of banana called the Goldfinger that I read is tr4 resistant. It is being grown in Australia in response to tr4, but failed in the market years ago. It might be the next banana.
i think the best way to go is to grow many varieties of bananas like we do with tomatoes. that way people get a choice and also if one dies out it won't wreck havoc
@@coagulatedsalts4711 Absolutely. We're definitely short sighted in our approach to agriculture. I think I read something about bananas being fairly unpredictable when pollenating. That's why it's all the exact same plant, because a lot of the time the results are gross. I think it's a job for us home growers, because the big companies won't take a risk. If we grow out bananas in our yards and create more varieties, there's be new ones to try. We can afford to fail in our own yards.
Goldfinger bananas are definitely popular enough here in Aus! Wonderful to learn they're TR4 resistant, but ultimately, this does seem like a cautionary tale against monoculturing anything, including Goldfingers.
Well obvoiusly a banana will taste different after a few years, it'll probably taste rotten though. I wouldnt reccomend leaving your bananas somewhere for a few years before eating them.
Yep. All banana flavored things are using the old Gros Michel flavor formula. No one bothered making a Cavendish artificial flavoring since they already had a "banana flavor" they could use.
This one's actually a myth, sort of. Artificial banana flavour is created with isoamyl acetate because it tastes a bit like banana (being a major component of bananas) and it's cheap, but it wasn't explicitly based on Gros Michel. That said, however, Gros Michel, being sweeter than Cavendish, does taste more similar to sweets flavoured with isoamyl acetate than Cavendish does.
My girlfriend is from indonesia. When she first came to US and had a cavendish banana she said it tastes bad. She said that cavendish exists in indonesia but it is more expensive than other bananas that taste better so it isn’t very popular. She grew up with gros michel (Indonesia apparently is one of the few countries with gros michel still being cultivated) and other amazing banana varieties. I hope someday I can fly to indonesia and get my hands on gros michel.
"There are over 1,000 different varieties of bananas, about half of which are inedible." These are the top 10: 1. Cavendish Banana The Cavendish banana is your “typical” banana found at the local grocery store or farmer’s market. They are slightly sweet and have a creamy texture. They have various stages of ripening, from green to yellow, to yellow with brown spots. They’re grown all across Central America, and their production is essential to the economies in these areas. 2. Pisang Raja Pisang Raja bananas are popular in Indonesia. Featuring a yellow to orange color, they taste like honey-flavored custard with a smooth and creamy consistency. They’re slightly smaller than Cavendish Bananas, averaging four to six inches in length. 3. Red Banana As their name suggests, red bananas have a reddish-purple skin. They have light pink colored flesh and are much sweeter and softer than Cavendish bananas. They also have a slight raspberry flavor that makes them absolutely irresistible. 4. Lady Finger Banana Lady Finger bananas, also known as baby bananas, are sweeter and smaller than Cavendish bananas. They’re usually around three inches in length and feature a creamy texture and sweet flavor with notes of honey. 5. Blue Java Banana Blue Java bananas are also known as the ice cream banana due to their sweet vanilla flavor and extreme creaminess. They feature a beautiful blue peel and a white flesh. They’re actually pretty hardy and can grow in colder regions. 6. Plantain Plantains are a subgroup of bananas that are referred to as cooking bananas. They have a high starch content and are typically used in savory dishes. They aren’t typically consumed raw. They’re a food staple in West and Central Africa, the Caribbean islands, and Central America. 7. Manzano Banana The Manzano Banana is sweeter than Cadvendish bananas with a hint of crunchy apple-strawberry flavor. They’re grown in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. They’re short and chubby with think yellow skins that turn black when fully ripe. 8. Burro Banana Burro bananas have a lemony and tangy taste, which makes them one of the most unique types of bananas. They have a flatter, smaller and more square shape than Cavendish bananas. The flesh is creamy white or yellow and is soft with some firmness in the center. 9. Barangan Banana Yellow with small black dots, the Barangan banana has a sweet, mild taste. The flesh is white with no seeds. It’s a popular variety and is eaten as a dessert in many regions across the tropics. 10. Goldfinger Banana The Goldfinger banana was first grown in Honduras by a team of scientists as a pest-resistant banana. It can be cooked when green and eaten raw once fully ripe. It’s similar to the Cavendish banana, with its eventual aim to replace the more susceptible-to-disease variety. blog.ediblearrangements.com/different-types-of-bananas/
my favourite is the red banana which i tried once, it was heaven! i also enjoy the "milk banana" commonly sold in my home city, they appear short but very fat, is tangy in flavour
The thing is, banana is a sterile hybrid. There is no alternative. It’s either cavendish banana or no banana. And mixing different crops in the same field won’t stop a virus like TR4. It may slow it down, but won’t fix the problem. So, monoculture has a lot of problems, but in this specific case, it is not the cause.
These are worse than monoculture. Bananas are all clones. No way to breed sterile banana plants so every crop tree is a cutting from another crop tree or a "mother" tree.
@@Pesso86 there are many different banana varieties. Problem is, most banana varieties are no good commercially due to not being perfectly yellow, tasting different, having varying sizes, too squishy for shipping, etc. Big banana wants bananas that are exactly like the Cavendish, but is resistant to TRP4, because they believe nobody would want to buy a fat and stout, fist sized, overly sweet banana with black spots all over. Or a red oversized banana. Or god forbid, a green banana that's almost like the Cavendish, but is green when ripened.
@@UltimatePerfection I haven’t went to go check the prices, but he bought 14 of them for $116, maybe those 60 dollar prices you saw were selling less of the bananas
This makes so much sense. I am not one to complain about "artificial flavors" and like all sorts of fruit flavored candy. But banana flavored candy always tasted waaay sweeter than real bananas (even / especially compared to apple, grape, strawberry, etc. flavored candy).
@@kd4n347 oh noooo not the superflu that's less lethal than many other illnesses and diseases that kill millions every year all years since forever ago that don't get lockdowns!! Gasp!
When I went abroad to the US many years ago, I tried the Cavendish banana and noticed how bad it tasted. I realized that here in Thailand, I was raised with eating the Gros Michel that is still grown around the whole country (my neighbors also have the Gros Michel) trust me they’re sweet and delicious af, maybe another reason why y’all should come over.
If we're going to eventually go down the route of Genetically modified Banana's to make them resistant to disease, why not put that effort into bringing back the older tastier nanners instead?
I was thinking about the same. Then I remembered that this refined genetic engineering that we have today didn't exist when Gros Michels went extinct everywhere but in Asia.
I think because the global export banana supply chain is specifically tuned for Cavendish banana ripening times. Different banana types would require different supply chain timings.
As Ronaldo G. said, the logistics probably play a large role - if it decreases corporate profits it isn't gonna happen. But another potential contributor is that the tastes and expectations of people have adapted to the Cavendish variety. I heard somewhere a few years ago that the artificial bananas flavor (ex: banana Laffy Taffy) which a lot of people myself included don't like, is based off the Gros Michel. But it's not because it tastes bad per se, it just throws my brain off because it is so different from what I am expecting. Even if we could get the Gros Michel back, maybe people just wouldn't like it as much as the past generations did. But now that I'm typing this, why wouldn't the companies that use artificial flavors just make one that conforms to the expectations of everyone that has never had a Gros Michel? I have so many questions...
@@HappyGick but since it still exist we can still get the genetic material needed, hell we can alter both versions and have different banana flavours to choose from
Can confirm. I worked on a banana farm and you had to WADE through a trough of essentially bleach water or something before entering the farm. Ankle deep minimum. The farm vehicles needed to follow a similar process if they ever left the sterile area.
@Andy P I'm the only child, of an only son, of an only son---and I have no kids. I'm the last of my line. When I'm gone, there will be no more. Thus, an appropriate nom-de-plume.
You missed out that the Cavendish has the same weakness as the Gross Michelle and that it is in fact artificial, named in honour of Duke William Cavendish who received an early specimen and its thought that all current Cavendish bananas in the world originate from that plant. Seriously though, the history of banana farming is crazy.
For anyone curious who doesn't want to spend $100 on bananas, get banana runts candy. The candy banana flavor is closer to the original banana flavor than the modern Cavendish. The texture is of course completely wrong, since runts are a hard candy, but the chemical used to create the flavor is the more intense and sweeter style of gros michel.
Gros Michel is not more or less original than Cavendish, just a different variety that was more common in the past. Original Bananas are basically a starchy paste surrounding 80% seeds by volume.
@@Azaghal1988 It was the original mass marketed banana, I'm sorry you didn't grasp that from context. The majority of bananas sold to consumers have been going through selective breeding for centuries, that one was the original to go worldwide on a mass market global scale.
ive had gros michel, they dont taste the same, it tastes more like the candy than cavendish but its kinda like if someone never had strawberries, and you gave them strawberry candy
Considering the song is very specifically about the shortage of bananas due to TR1 wiping out almost all 'Gros Michel' plantations, i.e. the exact precursor scenario of what is now facing us with our 'Cavendish' due to TR4... would it have even been funny?
You can’t actually put bananas in a freezer because they are used to tropical climates and if you put them in a cold place the cell walls will break down and now you have what is basically a rotten banana by putting them in your freezer. I found this out from a 1920s cartoon on how to use bananas because bananas at the time in the US was a very new thing and the public needed to know how to use them properly.
I've been hearing about the death of the Cavendish for 20 years. Don't worry in 20 years we'll be watching VR, scentoscope, tastoscope vids about the imminent death of the Cavendish.
@@Szpak92 That's normal, a fungal plant disease takes a long time to spread worldwide. It is almost impossible to stop though. The elm disease took more then half a century to destroy 99% of all elm trees in europe as well. The american chestnut is another good example, the chestnut blight also killed most of those trees, north american forest used to be about 30% chestnut in the 1900's.
I live in America and I'm telling you poverty Wage inequality And environmental degradation Are at all time highs And racism is still around but it's not as bad as it was during the 60s and 70s And Covid 19 Is already the worst Pandemic of the 20th century. Look If we can save the bananas Then we should try but we can always find another source for potassium Such as a sweet potato or beets If anyone out there is interested in knowing why poverty is so bad in America check out Robert Reich UA-cam channel He'll explain it Watch some of his videos and see for yourself
@@DavidJohnson-pu2jh I also live in America and Im telling you that Tropidosteus curvatus is a large, extinct holonematid arthrodire placoderm from the Givetian-aged Crinoidenmergel stratum of Middle Devonian Rheinland, Germany. T. curvatus is known from primarily from a slender, 42 centimeter long, arched median dorsal plate, where the two sides meet at a sixty to ninety degree angle, which would have given the live animal a humped appearance. The median dorsal plate is very similar to the median dorsal plates of Rhenonema and Belemnacanthus, and is the primary reason for T. curvatus' placement within Holonematidae. After stating this reason, Denison, 1978, then questions Tropidosteus' placement within the family, noting that the dorsal plate lacks ridged ornamentation, which is a key diagnostic trait of the family. The ornamentation otherwise consists of an external covering of small tubercles.
Fun fact: the Gros Michel contains a high concentration of chemical compound called 'isoamyl acetate' which is used in everything banana-flavored, so you can actually taste them without spending 116$ on the real thing. It has been the go-to flavor since forever, and used ever since.
Apparently, you can taste what a Gros Michel pretty easily. How? If you have gotten anything banana flavored (at least in the USA), you have tasted what a Gros Michel tastes like, which is also why "banana" flavor doesn't taste like the bananas you can get in the store.
That's not true, and it's an over-simplification of the situation. Banana flavored candy only contains one flavor chemical, isoamyl acetate, and occasionally a few others to make it taste slightly more "real." This chemical is found in both gros michel and cavendish. On its own, it doesn't taste much like a real banana of either variety. It tastes like banana flavored candy. Just like articifial cherry flavor doesn't taste like real cherries. All real foods have a complex combination of acids, bases, essential oils, and volatile compounds that add to the flavor profile, but also require aromatic compounds to trigger your sense of smell to get the flavor just right. Without smell, most foods taste pretty bland.
I litterally ate a banana for the first time in a while today, and thought "man this is pretty good hope bananas don't change much from this in the future".
@@litinupcito2044 for sure, I've noticed all oranges have a weird ass tumor mini orange at the top here in Sweden as well, they didn't when I was younger.
Sometimes I get a bunch of horrible bananas that aren’t sweet at all and taste mealy like starchy grossness. I love the current bananas when they are normal though. I hate banana flavored candy so I really hope our bananas don’t change. It’s natural to lose some of our ability to smell and taste as were aging though. But I remember peaches being much softer and yummier during my childhood. These days I can’t find a soft peach even when I’m traveling in countries with warmer climates. They used to be my favorites as a child, but now I haven’t eaten one in over 10 years and the last few times I did try them I spit them out. I really wonder what happened to peaches 🥺
The fear comes from scientifically illiterate making shit up because they don't understand the real science behind it. They spread lies like it's less nutritious or they'll give you cancer.
@@Kreeos I'm absolutely for GMO but the genetic patents make it really tricky and Big Farms can sue smaller farms for having their crops unintentionally fertilized by GMO pollen. The laws are fucked fam. It's not a good idea to implement GMO that much that soon
@@bensdorp1993 Farmers buy seed every year regardless. They don't just use their own seed. That would lead to reduced crop yeilds due to suboptimal seeds.
Both are not contradictory. All bananas are gonna die, so as we will probably create a new banana, which will taste different than the previous one, therefore banana as a whole will taste different.
@@jean-baptistechopin1799 I never said they were contradictory, but they can be purported to be. If all bananas die, which bananas can still *live* to taste different? For either statement to be true, the other must be false.
@@amistrophy Then you're misunderstanding the phrasing. The "bananas" that taste different are bananas as the idea of banana, the fruit as whole, with all its known past varieties. "Banana" itself, not "Gros Michel Banana" or "Cavendish Banana" specifically.
Gros Michel, is why banana flavored candy don't seem to actually taste like bananas, Cavendishs weren't the popular banana when the flavoring for the candy was invented.
Yes, but actually no. All of these are not really that good for that purpose. Namely being massively farmed, shipped across the world and that need to appeal top the customer. We do have NO banana that covers all of that to replace the Cavendish.
@@sushi777300 Of course not, bananas grow everywhere in tropical countries, you buy them from local, small sellers that don't have to worry about that since they won't be working in monocultures to export to other continents. Btw there's lots of species and most of them taste way better than this Gros Michel, which looks a lot like the ones I would find in supermarkets.
@TheExplodingChipmunk hmmm are you sure they can't be farmed? I know Japan is importing bananas from Philippines and Google says Philippines is exporting millions of tonnes of bananas annually, so it seems like some Asian bananas are capable of being farmed in large scale.
As a Burmese, this video is totally mind-blowing. Here, if you go to a store and ask for a banana, the confused shopkeeper will look at you and ask what kind of banana you want. I can think of four totally different types of bananas just while writing this comment.
They should ignore the Cavindish and instead genetically modify the Gros Michele to be immune to the TR1 fungus so that we could go back to eating that better tasting banana.
I remember when The Gros Michel Banana stopped being available in New York , it was confusing and sickening ! the difference in taste was horrible , and took a long time to get used to - I was a child and refused to eat the replacement bananas ' The Cavendish ' , p.s. at the time no one had a clue that there were types of bananas , or what was happening to them , it was very noticeable , not like different types of apples or pears !
for those wanting a proper description of other types of bananas, look up 'weird explorer' . he reviews all types of exotic fruit including many types of bananas.
The ‘L’ is silent, too (unless followed by a word starting with a vowel, in which case the ‘L’ is pronounced as the beginning of the second word )(because the French decided that the way they they wrote it mattered more than how they pronounced it). And they complain about English?
@@Egilhelmson Most of English's stupid language exceptions come from other languages. English is a difficult language because it is the mutant chimera language.
yess, my grandma sometimes asks me to go buy some different kinds of bananas like the "nanica" (like "smol banana"), or prata or banana da terra or banana maçã, etc. i only know how to recognize banana prata bc it's the most common one
@@danilobaudelair I just had a flashback of my childhood with your comment. I still remember the flavor of banana maçã even after decades without eaten it!
Can't we just bring gros Michel back? The fungus that affected the variety it's probably gone by now if we have not cultivated in global scale since the 50s
@@leosong829 Unfortunately that doesn't apply for those two banana sorts. People, animals and plants gain immunity from diseases from genetic diversity. Mix the genes from two parents and chances are some of the offspring will be more resistant to a specific disease. Both Gros Michel and Cavendish are clones though so there is no genetic diversity whatsoever. Like all other domestic banana and plantains they are sterile so they can only propagate asexually. All is not lost though. There are other domesticated banana variants that might be sutable replacements and since the two wild banana species they all originate from still exist and they still come up with sterile, seedless variants every now and then. (If you wonder why we can't simply eat wild bananas, it's because their seeds are big and hard as rock.)
To be fair, there’s really no way to know the long term consequences yet. Personally, I’m less concerned about them being bad for ME as I am about them being bad for variety. For instance, GMO corn gradually wiping out and taking over other varieties through cross pollination and market drivers.
@@nude_cat_ellie7417 There's also no way to know the consequences of like every thing you eat, because that is changing every time, for all we know, a random allele swap during reproduction could make a cow poisonous.
@@nude_cat_ellie7417 I apologise, I might've misinterpreted your comment the first time I commented on it. But yes, I agree, GMO crops can be bad for variety (in multipleways, biodiversity being one). (Although that's also the case with "conventional" crops.)
@@nude_cat_ellie7417 Good point, but this would be a problem even in the case of using 1 variety of heirloom plant. Monoculture being the root issue in both cases.
Humanity: has an extremely secure vault with all the seeds needed to continue growing our fruits and vegetables, just in case of major worldwide disaster Also humans: the taste of banana today as we know it will be gone in a few years.
@@ИльяЕрмаков-з4л That’s mostly because seed bananas were artificially selected to have smaller seeds. OG bananas had seeds the size of a soybean, but, well, people didn’t like having to pull out those giant blocks out of their fruit, so bananas got selected for seedless, and now every banana has to be cloned.
Phase 1: grow all bananas on the moon for 50 years Phase 2: Kill all bananas on earth Phase 3: After 50 years bring the banana business back to earth Enjoy
Gros Michel is still grown and sold in Malaysia. And being the region where bananas originate, I am spoiled for choice with regards to which bananas I can choose, from smol 3 inch bananas to bananas the size of the horn of a cattle. Cavendish is bland in comparison.
Damn bro I’m on my way 😂
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I’m malaysian and don’t even know what species or type of bananas 🍌 I’m eating lmao 😂
I only know that bananas in the canary islands taste far better than the ones I can buy at home.
They are also of the smaller variety, but no idea what exact type they are...
i like those small ones. bite size... hahaha... well... big bite. :D
aside from being tastier, the Gros Michel was also easier to transport.
I would say you’re a piece of cheese. I pile of cheese would have to be separate pieces on top of eachother. here ya go images.app.goo.gl/hzaB3DfpnAAn3Mhn6
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@@slep1654 now that's some gouda content
Cheesed banana omg
You realize Gros Michel literally means fat Mitchell
There is a variety of banana called the Goldfinger that I read is tr4 resistant. It is being grown in Australia in response to tr4, but failed in the market years ago. It might be the next banana.
i think the best way to go is to grow many varieties of bananas like we do with tomatoes. that way people get a choice and also if one dies out it won't wreck havoc
@@coagulatedsalts4711 Absolutely. We're definitely short sighted in our approach to agriculture. I think I read something about bananas being fairly unpredictable when pollenating. That's why it's all the exact same plant, because a lot of the time the results are gross.
I think it's a job for us home growers, because the big companies won't take a risk. If we grow out bananas in our yards and create more varieties, there's be new ones to try. We can afford to fail in our own yards.
Goldfinger bananas are definitely popular enough here in Aus! Wonderful to learn they're TR4 resistant, but ultimately, this does seem like a cautionary tale against monoculturing anything, including Goldfingers.
@@michaelafischer6177 How do they taste?
Goldfinger? Is that the same as Lady Fingers? Or is that something different altogether?
Ok if Cavendish bananas are the worst tasting, then the Gros Michel must have been so unbelievably good.
@@astorionsmith6377 wtf
@@pawsthecat9575 I know, right?
I heard Dakota bananas are good. But I can’t get any due to Murphy’s law.
If you've had anything that's artificial banana flavor and though "this doesn't taste like banana" then it was based on the gros michel flavor.
@@thekwoka4707 wow, that’s cool. I didn’t know that.
Well obvoiusly a banana will taste different after a few years, it'll probably taste rotten though. I wouldnt reccomend leaving your bananas somewhere for a few years before eating them.
Well then.
it appears ive been doing it wrong
The fuck
I do, however, recommend doing exactly this with Peeps.
Had us in the first half not gonna lie
Isn't that also why artificial banana flavor tastes so different, because they're based on the old type of banana?
Yep. All banana flavored things are using the old Gros Michel flavor formula. No one bothered making a Cavendish artificial flavoring since they already had a "banana flavor" they could use.
@@xyex that is really fascinating
This one's actually a myth, sort of. Artificial banana flavour is created with isoamyl acetate because it tastes a bit like banana (being a major component of bananas) and it's cheap, but it wasn't explicitly based on Gros Michel. That said, however, Gros Michel, being sweeter than Cavendish, does taste more similar to sweets flavoured with isoamyl acetate than Cavendish does.
i hope not because i hate artificial banana (and watermelon) flavors
@@gergogaal568 me too. And grape. And raspberry.
50 years later: "You kids will never understand the old taste of bananas"
The bad taste of cavendish you were forced to have an pre school.
And now the worse tastes your kids have been forced to have in school
@@Versuffe And the even worse taste that their children will have in 2100 school.......
@@Versuffe unless they managed to have a Lakutan Variety Banana that has a longer shelf life.
Lol
Good
My girlfriend is from indonesia. When she first came to US and had a cavendish banana she said it tastes bad. She said that cavendish exists in indonesia but it is more expensive than other bananas that taste better so it isn’t very popular. She grew up with gros michel (Indonesia apparently is one of the few countries with gros michel still being cultivated) and other amazing banana varieties. I hope someday I can fly to indonesia and get my hands on gros michel.
We have about 5-6 varieties of banana and every single of them has it own unique taste
U should try all of them :D
I live in indonesia and this answers my question. Thank you.
@@Howthorne is scavendish called pisang raja here? I mean thats the only banana that taste bad, but big size though
@@Hamzahyn4 i'm not a banana expert so i can't answer that question
@@Hamzahyn4 those are a different type of banana
"There are over 1,000 different varieties of bananas, about half of which are inedible."
These are the top 10:
1. Cavendish Banana
The Cavendish banana is your “typical” banana found at the local grocery store or farmer’s market. They are slightly sweet and have a creamy texture. They have various stages of ripening, from green to yellow, to yellow with brown spots. They’re grown all across Central America, and their production is essential to the economies in these areas.
2. Pisang Raja
Pisang Raja bananas are popular in Indonesia. Featuring a yellow to orange color, they taste like honey-flavored custard with a smooth and creamy consistency. They’re slightly smaller than Cavendish Bananas, averaging four to six inches in length.
3. Red Banana
As their name suggests, red bananas have a reddish-purple skin. They have light pink colored flesh and are much sweeter and softer than Cavendish bananas. They also have a slight raspberry flavor that makes them absolutely irresistible.
4. Lady Finger Banana
Lady Finger bananas, also known as baby bananas, are sweeter and smaller than Cavendish bananas. They’re usually around three inches in length and feature a creamy texture and sweet flavor with notes of honey.
5. Blue Java Banana
Blue Java bananas are also known as the ice cream banana due to their sweet vanilla flavor and extreme creaminess. They feature a beautiful blue peel and a white flesh. They’re actually pretty hardy and can grow in colder regions.
6. Plantain
Plantains are a subgroup of bananas that are referred to as cooking bananas. They have a high starch content and are typically used in savory dishes. They aren’t typically consumed raw. They’re a food staple in West and Central Africa, the Caribbean islands, and Central America.
7. Manzano Banana
The Manzano Banana is sweeter than Cadvendish bananas with a hint of crunchy apple-strawberry flavor. They’re grown in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. They’re short and chubby with think yellow skins that turn black when fully ripe.
8. Burro Banana
Burro bananas have a lemony and tangy taste, which makes them one of the most unique types of bananas. They have a flatter, smaller and more square shape than Cavendish bananas. The flesh is creamy white or yellow and is soft with some firmness in the center.
9. Barangan Banana
Yellow with small black dots, the Barangan banana has a sweet, mild taste. The flesh is white with no seeds. It’s a popular variety and is eaten as a dessert in many regions across the tropics.
10. Goldfinger Banana
The Goldfinger banana was first grown in Honduras by a team of scientists as a pest-resistant banana. It can be cooked when green and eaten raw once fully ripe. It’s similar to the Cavendish banana, with its eventual aim to replace the more susceptible-to-disease variety.
blog.ediblearrangements.com/different-types-of-bananas/
Well now I really want to try all of those, I never really liked bananas
Can't believe I really read this... Now I wanna try all of those, too :(
Show off!!
my favourite is the red banana which i tried once, it was heaven!
i also enjoy the "milk banana" commonly sold in my home city, they appear short but very fat, is tangy in flavour
I wanna try Red and Blue Java so bad right now!!!
Just another chapter in the best-seller “Monoculture.”
The thing is, banana is a sterile hybrid. There is no alternative. It’s either cavendish banana or no banana.
And mixing different crops in the same field won’t stop a virus like TR4. It may slow it down, but won’t fix the problem.
So, monoculture has a lot of problems, but in this specific case, it is not the cause.
These are worse than monoculture. Bananas are all clones. No way to breed sterile banana plants so every crop tree is a cutting from another crop tree or a "mother" tree.
@@PhilLesh69 THEN HOW THEY COME TO BE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!
@@UltimatePerfection through selective breeding
@@Pesso86 there are many different banana varieties. Problem is, most banana varieties are no good commercially due to not being perfectly yellow, tasting different, having varying sizes, too squishy for shipping, etc.
Big banana wants bananas that are exactly like the Cavendish, but is resistant to TRP4, because they believe nobody would want to buy a fat and stout, fist sized, overly sweet banana with black spots all over. Or a red oversized banana. Or god forbid, a green banana that's almost like the Cavendish, but is green when ripened.
Will we be sad if bananas die because of TR4 ? Yes
Will bananas be sad if we die because of Covid ? No
#cancelbananas
@@RyanTosh you can't cancel a godly being, foolish mortal
well, because these bananas don’t grow seeds, they sure would be sad that they can’t reproduce without humans anymore
@@wafflies8790
i dont remember me or my kind being godly but ok
@@Bananappleboy now you do
Ha I was thinking “how much would I have to pay to get a gros michele” and then he says how much he paid. Nice. I will try them one day!!
"Ha I" ("Roll credits!") "was thinking..."
He overpaid though. I googled around and seen them for about $60.
@@UltimatePerfection I haven’t went to go check the prices, but he bought 14 of them for $116, maybe those 60 dollar prices you saw were selling less of the bananas
The gros michel are the banana our artificial banana flavor emulates. That's why banana flavor tastes nothing like what he currently call bananas.
Banana flavoring is terrible
No artificial fruit flavor tastes like what they try to emulate.
This makes so much sense. I am not one to complain about "artificial flavors" and like all sorts of fruit flavored candy. But banana flavored candy always tasted waaay sweeter than real bananas (even / especially compared to apple, grape, strawberry, etc. flavored candy).
Pog, banana flavouring is amazing but I never liked normal ones
Isn’t banana flavoring largely just a type of vanilla?
“TR-4 will go down as the worst pandemic of the 21st century.” Nice
Lol 😅🤣😂
@@kd4n347 oh noooo not the superflu that's less lethal than many other illnesses and diseases that kill millions every year all years since forever ago that don't get lockdowns!! Gasp!
X - Doubt
new deadlier virus waiting to pop out in 5 years:
think again
@@BichaelStevens stfu
The thing that really sucks about fusarium is that it stays behind in the soil, so if you replant you're still screwed.
When I went abroad to the US many years ago, I tried the Cavendish banana and noticed how bad it tasted. I realized that here in Thailand, I was raised with eating the Gros Michel that is still grown around the whole country (my neighbors also have the Gros Michel) trust me they’re sweet and delicious af, maybe another reason why y’all should come over.
No, come to Brazil, we have a lot of gros michel too
@@lagartixabeats and the three c’s
Crime
Corruption
Cociane
@@bigfish3846 u forgot
- Crackheads
- Cuscuz (tasty food)
- Corona
- Cuzões (big asses)
I like the taste of Cavendish, it might be more of acquired taste. Or perhaps that the Cavendish wasn't what you expected and that made it taste worse
Wasn't banana flavored candy made to taste like gros michel?
If we're going to eventually go down the route of Genetically modified Banana's to make them resistant to disease, why not put that effort into bringing back the older tastier nanners instead?
I was thinking about the same. Then I remembered that this refined genetic engineering that we have today didn't exist when Gros Michels went extinct everywhere but in Asia.
I think because the global export banana supply chain is specifically tuned for Cavendish banana ripening times. Different banana types would require different supply chain timings.
I believe that is one of the plans.
As Ronaldo G. said, the logistics probably play a large role - if it decreases corporate profits it isn't gonna happen. But another potential contributor is that the tastes and expectations of people have adapted to the Cavendish variety. I heard somewhere a few years ago that the artificial bananas flavor (ex: banana Laffy Taffy) which a lot of people myself included don't like, is based off the Gros Michel. But it's not because it tastes bad per se, it just throws my brain off because it is so different from what I am expecting. Even if we could get the Gros Michel back, maybe people just wouldn't like it as much as the past generations did.
But now that I'm typing this, why wouldn't the companies that use artificial flavors just make one that conforms to the expectations of everyone that has never had a Gros Michel? I have so many questions...
@@HappyGick but since it still exist we can still get the genetic material needed, hell we can alter both versions and have different banana flavours to choose from
Can confirm. I worked on a banana farm and you had to WADE through a trough of essentially bleach water or something before entering the farm. Ankle deep minimum. The farm vehicles needed to follow a similar process if they ever left the sterile area.
I'll think of you next time I pop open a nice refreshing naner
Uhh I was expecting a happy ending but I guess we are just fucked then?
Always has been
Like Sam said, we are developing GMO bananas that are immune to TR-4, but a lot of people won't eat them for absolutely no good reason
Nah, conspiracy theories will just score another self-goal as soon as the "real" bananas run out.
@@matttanner462 those GMO's making the frogs gay!
@@matttanner462 Bananas contain government microchips!!!!
In English Gros Michel would mean Big Mike.
Isn't he married to Barack?
@@elultimo102 Gros ≠ Gross
@Andy P I'm the only child, of an only son, of an only son---and I have no kids. I'm the last of my line. When I'm gone, there will be no more. Thus, an appropriate nom-de-plume.
@@elultimo102 So your the Cavendish banana.You two will will share the same story.
@@PrivateMcPrivate ROFL! But not from the same cause.
You missed out that the Cavendish has the same weakness as the Gross Michelle and that it is in fact artificial, named in honour of Duke William Cavendish who received an early specimen and its thought that all current Cavendish bananas in the world originate from that plant. Seriously though, the history of banana farming is crazy.
Bananas
In pajamas
Are coming down
T H E S T A I R S
Nostalgic
Now thats a name I haven't heard in some time
Bananas
in pajamas
are coming down
with a deadly fungus
Yes officer, this comment
@@legoshaakti then they died
Petition to make a “Half As Interesting But There’s No Context” Series
Planes plane plane, train plane, plane plane, train, brick, plane, brick *self depreciating joke* plane, train, planes.
There you go
@@Fede_uyz don’t forget a joke about Newark
@@Fede_uyz and also nanners
Yes
the more likes the more people agreeing with the petition
For anyone curious who doesn't want to spend $100 on bananas, get banana runts candy. The candy banana flavor is closer to the original banana flavor than the modern Cavendish. The texture is of course completely wrong, since runts are a hard candy, but the chemical used to create the flavor is the more intense and sweeter style of gros michel.
Always wondered why it was so sweet compared to the rest. It's like "grape, apple, orange, and uh. Sugar ball mixed with a hint of banana?"
Gros Michel is not more or less original than Cavendish, just a different variety that was more common in the past.
Original Bananas are basically a starchy paste surrounding 80% seeds by volume.
@@Azaghal1988 It was the original mass marketed banana, I'm sorry you didn't grasp that from context.
The majority of bananas sold to consumers have been going through selective breeding for centuries, that one was the original to go worldwide on a mass market global scale.
My fav candy ever, I only like the banana ones lol-
ive had gros michel, they dont taste the same, it tastes more like the candy than cavendish but its kinda like if someone never had strawberries, and you gave them strawberry candy
You missed a “yes we have no bananas” joke.
Considering the song is very specifically about the shortage of bananas due to TR1 wiping out almost all 'Gros Michel' plantations, i.e. the exact precursor scenario of what is now facing us with our 'Cavendish' due to TR4... would it have even been funny?
Here's a tip: go to Thailand and buy some local bananas there. They have some tasty ones over there.
I got food poisoning diarrhoea and nausea there tho
@@aoaoaaoaoao889 anything for the nanners
@@slavicnonatho8062 yes
@@_lod I have been to Thailand twice, both 14 day vacations, only place I didn’t get nauseous and stuff like that was at a Swedish restaurant 😳
@@_lod oo
I swear UA-cam always recommends me banana related videos when I’m eating one. Now I want to eat more bananas
The AI can hear you mushing down on them. 😂
Talked to my grandad (born in 1936). He confirmed the bananas where sweeter and (fun fact) they didn’t have bananas until 45 cause of world war 2
would this explain the old novelty song of Jimmy Durante "yes we have no bananas"?
@@timgreenglass thats what the song was about
Bananas were sweeter because method to ripe bananas were different back then
thats why hitler is considered evil he tried to stop people from eating bananas
I talked to your grandad and he said you're an embarrassment
Better start throwin Cavendish in a freezer so I can let my grandkids taste em
Bold of you to assumed that you will have kids
@@mansoorahmed1256 Apply water to the burnt area
@@mansoorahmed1256 Or that your kids will have kids 😱
You can’t actually put bananas in a freezer because they are used to tropical climates and if you put them in a cold place the cell walls will break down and now you have what is basically a rotten banana by putting them in your freezer. I found this out from a 1920s cartoon on how to use bananas because bananas at the time in the US was a very new thing and the public needed to know how to use them properly.
Thanks for listening to my ted talk
I do not remember the part of Alien where the Alien said "I'm the captain now" but I trust you.
A few years? They only last in my fruit bowl for a few minutes!
280 likes no replys I'm changing that
I've been hearing about the death of the Cavendish for 20 years. Don't worry in 20 years we'll be watching VR, scentoscope, tastoscope vids about the imminent death of the Cavendish.
Lol
I wanna like but it's at 420
@@Szpak92 That's normal, a fungal plant disease takes a long time to spread worldwide. It is almost impossible to stop though. The elm disease took more then half a century to destroy 99% of all elm trees in europe as well. The american chestnut is another good example, the chestnut blight also killed most of those trees, north american forest used to be about 30% chestnut in the 1900's.
It will taste different because they'll be moldy in a few years
lmao underrated
big brain
They would be black as coal
I clicked this video just to comment this but I guess you r/beatmetoit then…?
4:35 ‘the worst pandemic of the 21st century’
Me: wtf when was this video made... oh, a joke.
Me too I also thought this was made before 2020
I like that his content has gotten saucier (see: recycling).
Wdym saucier?
But that was on the other channel, no?
Yes
It is safe to say “going bananas” will have a different meaning in a few years
😔😂🤡😔
That phrase might go the way of the dodo!
I hate you and love you for this pun
Lol
probably
How are the bananas doing?
Sam: "ellen DeGeneres being a nice person, a thing of the past"
me: spits water
The truth bombs Sam drops are epic
Excuse me , but why isn't she seen as a nice one anymore?
@@polasamierwahsh421 Google it. You'll discover the sad reality.
@@polasamierwahsh421 she has got into many scandals that's why
@@vajrithaburgu3679 could you name some so i can look them up< if you dont mind?
Cant believe all this money is going to an unknown disease called “COVID” instead of helping those poor bananas. smh
I live in America and I'm telling you poverty Wage inequality And environmental degradation Are at all time highs And racism is still around but it's not as bad as it was during the 60s and 70s And Covid 19 Is already the worst Pandemic of the 20th century. Look If we can save the bananas Then we should try but we can always find another source for potassium Such as a sweet potato or beets If anyone out there is interested in knowing why poverty is so bad in America check out Robert Reich UA-cam channel He'll explain it Watch some of his videos and see for yourself
@@DavidJohnson-pu2jh I also live in America and Im telling you that Tropidosteus curvatus is a large, extinct holonematid arthrodire placoderm from the Givetian-aged Crinoidenmergel stratum of Middle Devonian Rheinland, Germany. T. curvatus is known from primarily from a slender, 42 centimeter long, arched median dorsal plate, where the two sides meet at a sixty to ninety degree angle, which would have given the live animal a humped appearance. The median dorsal plate is very similar to the median dorsal plates of Rhenonema and Belemnacanthus, and is the primary reason for T. curvatus' placement within Holonematidae. After stating this reason, Denison, 1978, then questions Tropidosteus' placement within the family, noting that the dorsal plate lacks ridged ornamentation, which is a key diagnostic trait of the family. The ornamentation otherwise consists of an external covering of small tubercles.
@@DavidJohnson-pu2jh Someone didn't get the joke.
I know right !! Bananas have feelings too! (I'd say BLM but this a joke and that's disrespectful)
So banana is important and not human life
Fun fact: the Gros Michel contains a high concentration of chemical compound called 'isoamyl acetate' which is used in everything banana-flavored, so you can actually taste them without spending 116$ on the real thing. It has been the go-to flavor since forever, and used ever since.
Apparently, you can taste what a Gros Michel pretty easily.
How?
If you have gotten anything banana flavored (at least in the USA), you have tasted what a Gros Michel tastes like, which is also why "banana" flavor doesn't taste like the bananas you can get in the store.
I hate banana flavored stuff but love bananas
so i hate this banana. taste awful, chunky banana is the tastiest of all
Uhhhhhrgggggg I live in Germany but absoluty love banana flavoured milk xD
I love banana flavored stuff but hate bananas
That's not true, and it's an over-simplification of the situation. Banana flavored candy only contains one flavor chemical, isoamyl acetate, and occasionally a few others to make it taste slightly more "real." This chemical is found in both gros michel and cavendish. On its own, it doesn't taste much like a real banana of either variety. It tastes like banana flavored candy. Just like articifial cherry flavor doesn't taste like real cherries. All real foods have a complex combination of acids, bases, essential oils, and volatile compounds that add to the flavor profile, but also require aromatic compounds to trigger your sense of smell to get the flavor just right. Without smell, most foods taste pretty bland.
When u realise HAI one day might just..... end
Nope
He has to make a bricks video before alt f4 ing himself
Is this an assassination threat to HAI?
@@mastergamingnic1681 maybe
@@mastergamingnic1681 Dude just watch this
As a banana, I find this terrifyingly more deadly than covid
I litterally ate a banana for the first time in a while today, and thought "man this is pretty good hope bananas don't change much from this in the future".
Literally me
Is it just me or bananas are slowly starting to taste more bland
@@litinupcito2044 I was thinking that too. You are not alone
@@litinupcito2044 for sure, I've noticed all oranges have a weird ass tumor mini orange at the top here in Sweden as well, they didn't when I was younger.
Sometimes I get a bunch of horrible bananas that aren’t sweet at all and taste mealy like starchy grossness. I love the current bananas when they are normal though. I hate banana flavored candy so I really hope our bananas don’t change. It’s natural to lose some of our ability to smell and taste as were aging though. But I remember peaches being much softer and yummier during my childhood. These days I can’t find a soft peach even when I’m traveling in countries with warmer climates. They used to be my favorites as a child, but now I haven’t eaten one in over 10 years and the last few times I did try them I spit them out. I really wonder what happened to peaches 🥺
"GMO saves nanners" might actually be a pretty good PR move for scientists. I've never understood the fear of GMOs.
The fear comes from scientifically illiterate making shit up because they don't understand the real science behind it. They spread lies like it's less nutritious or they'll give you cancer.
Because most GMO crops cant reproduce themselves so u gotta buy seeds every year
Genetic pollution
@@Kreeos I'm absolutely for GMO but the genetic patents make it really tricky and Big Farms can sue smaller farms for having their crops unintentionally fertilized by GMO pollen.
The laws are fucked fam.
It's not a good idea to implement GMO that much that soon
@@bensdorp1993 Farmers buy seed every year regardless. They don't just use their own seed. That would lead to reduced crop yeilds due to suboptimal seeds.
Almost every video I see made by you seems half as interesting, you really did a good job naming your channel
Nooooo, we should find something for it!
WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE??????
@@andrasaronkazai5179 ?
@@typlcai he is in every 'the most liked comment will be in the thumbnail' kind of videos and now he's here too
@Laquelectro he's in every 'the most liked comments will be in the thumbnail' kind of videos and now he's here too
@Tasnim Arpon ok, bye
This video is reverse clickbait.
Actual content says bananas are all gonna die.(unless gmo)
Thumbnail says banana gonna taste different.
That's what I thought too.
Taste different because they will have to become GMO bananas...
Both are not contradictory. All bananas are gonna die, so as we will probably create a new banana, which will taste different than the previous one, therefore banana as a whole will taste different.
@@jean-baptistechopin1799 I never said they were contradictory, but they can be purported to be. If all bananas die, which bananas can still *live* to taste different? For either statement to be true, the other must be false.
@@amistrophy Then you're misunderstanding the phrasing. The "bananas" that taste different are bananas as the idea of banana, the fruit as whole, with all its known past varieties. "Banana" itself, not "Gros Michel Banana" or "Cavendish Banana" specifically.
“When your Nan wanted to nom on a ‘nanner...” lol
5:40 *Eats a very green banana*
*Starts passive-aggressively complaining that it sucks*
Fresh Baguettes’ scent however will last forever.
As will Burger King burgers
Ok Napoleon
Ew a nazi
@@Void_Wars what?
I see you everywhere Napoleon.
Gros Michel, is why banana flavored candy don't seem to actually taste like bananas, Cavendishs weren't the popular banana when the flavoring for the candy was invented.
me, south east asian look at two kind of bananas in my kitchen : confuse screaming
Aight, we going back to colonize in the name of the bananas.
@@meneither3834 lmaoooooo
yup uhh i eat like the long banana (tasty as hek) and the one's spefically for with food
I think the long banana is a cavendish
@@auhsojacosta1672 ok
"When your Nan wanted to nom on a nanner." I'm pretty sure I'm only alive because Nan didn't want to nom any nanners.
Trust me, we all know your Nan
im pretty sure this only affects bananas, not people.
Secret code validated
"there are no bananas will replace Cavendish Bananas"
FIlipinos: *just choose any! there's Lakatan, Latundan, Seniorita, Saba/Cardaba, etc.*
Our bananas will never die
@@reymichaelsungazornosa4040 amen
@@reymichaelsungazornosa4040 Banana pride, worldwide?
Lol. That’s what I thought
“Good old days where women and minorities didn’t want so many damn rights” -HAI
yea that's going in my cringe compilation
based
@@jpgaminf7834 lame
If you dont agree with a certain people burning down buildings and rioting during a pandemic you are a racist.
Me living in a tropical country with lots of choices for bananas: cool story bro
Yes, but actually no. All of these are not really that good for that purpose. Namely being massively farmed, shipped across the world and that need to appeal top the customer. We do have NO banana that covers all of that to replace the Cavendish.
Are you stupid???
You'll feel the negative impact even more
@@sushi777300 Of course not, bananas grow everywhere in tropical countries, you buy them from local, small sellers that don't have to worry about that since they won't be working in monocultures to export to other continents. Btw there's lots of species and most of them taste way better than this Gros Michel, which looks a lot like the ones I would find in supermarkets.
@TheExplodingChipmunk hmmm are you sure they can't be farmed? I know Japan is importing bananas from Philippines and Google says Philippines is exporting millions of tonnes of bananas annually, so it seems like some Asian bananas are capable of being farmed in large scale.
Same, we got atleast 6 different varieties of bananas
UA-cam videos like this is the reason my sleep schedule is fucked up
In my local lingo, Cavendish Bananas are called something that literally translates to "Bananas of the Sea". I don't know why!
They originally came from England, an island nation and far from most banana growing regions. Maybe that's why.
COVID-19- I will be the worst pandemic of the 21st century
TR4 - Hold my beer
So basically, bananas are going to be really expensive in the near future until they’d finally disappear completely?
Banana: update 1.12 patch logs
- New taste
@@aubymori1333 eg
TR Fungus : *exists *
Bananas : Hehe, I'm in danger
I've had red bananas "Red Dacca' and they are great! They just take a longer time to ripen after you buy them.
As a Burmese, this video is totally mind-blowing. Here, if you go to a store and ask for a banana, the confused shopkeeper will look at you and ask what kind of banana you want. I can think of four totally different types of bananas just while writing this comment.
I’m placing bets on how many times sam doesn’t say banana
They should ignore the Cavindish and instead genetically modify the Gros Michele to be immune to the TR1 fungus so that we could go back to eating that better tasting banana.
The thought of no bananas gives me a...splitting headache.
not for me, i dont like bananas
I got it. You got a lol from me.
5:25 It's a banana, Michael. How much could it cost? 10 dollars?
In this case Lucile Bluth was not far off.
Blows over 100 dollars to some special bananas, eats them raw. Well played.
Can't wait for youtube to recommend this in 2025, it will be interesting to see if this is right
honestly, this video was *BANANAS*
If we can genetically modify Cavendish to resist TR4, why not modify Gros Michel to resist TR1 and bring them back?
“There is a Fungus among us”
Yes
Yes
Hold up
Where's a GMO when you damn need it!!
TLDR: laffy taffy is genetically engineering super bananas that taste like their banana flavored laffy taffy
I remember when The Gros Michel Banana stopped being available in New York , it was confusing and sickening ! the difference in taste was horrible , and took a long time to get used to - I was a child and refused to eat the replacement bananas ' The Cavendish ' , p.s. at the time no one had a clue that there were types of bananas , or what was happening to them , it was very noticeable , not like different types of apples or pears !
How old are you? You tell a nice story.
for those wanting a proper description of other types of bananas, look up 'weird explorer' . he reviews all types of exotic fruit including many types of bananas.
Yep, I agree, he's good. Have a look for the blue banana video. Also known as the ice cream banana.
Thanks for introducing me to another worthy youtuber.
I'm going to buy some bananas now. Let's enjoy while they last.
I’m allergic to banana
I should be sleeping but I am here knowing why bananas will taste different
Ever wondered why banana flavored candy tastes so different from the bananas you get in the store? Yep. This is why.
Imagine all the Karens at grocery stores going bananas complaining that there are no bananas left
The "s" in Gros Michel is silent. So just "Gro Michel".
I like "Big Mike", too.
The ‘L’ is silent, too (unless followed by a word starting with a vowel, in which case the ‘L’ is pronounced as the beginning of the second word )(because the French decided that the way they they wrote it mattered more than how they pronounced it). And they complain about English?
@@Egilhelmson Most of English's stupid language exceptions come from other languages. English is a difficult language because it is the mutant chimera language.
@@Egilhelmson That's BS, the L is not silent. Check your facts with french speakers.
*didn't the Beatles have a song about loving that particular type of banana?*
I love this channel, your voice is so captivating :D
Yeah, it’s so much better than that guy at Wendover Productions
It's a voice of a liberal.
@@jb894 cringe
@@breck1637 you're cringe
@@jb894 no u
2:59
GETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEAD
When bananas get infected with fungus:
*there is 1 impostor in Among Us*
Vintage bananas!!! That’s a great line!
"This day is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s!" -Kelly Kapoor.
So basically, this was a real-life version of the Blue Shadow Virus, but with cloned bananas instead of cloned humans.
What game is that from?
@@empoleonmaster6709 Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( a TV series)
Half As Interesting: 3:48
COVID-19: Hello
COVID 19 said Hold MY BEER 🍺
IIRC, the gros michel also went by the "big Mike" I'm down to get some big Mike in me. If only.
You probably can. There are apps for that now
Weird, in brazil we have so many different types of bananas.
In America we call the other kinds "plantains"
yess, my grandma sometimes asks me to go buy some different kinds of bananas like the "nanica" (like "smol banana"), or prata or banana da terra or banana maçã, etc. i only know how to recognize banana prata bc it's the most common one
@@danilobaudelair I just had a flashback of my childhood with your comment. I still remember the flavor of banana maçã even after decades without eaten it!
Pro tip : the "S" in "Gros Michel" is silent (I'm pretty sure it's a French word, feel free to correct me)
Can't we just bring gros Michel back? The fungus that affected the variety it's probably gone by now if we have not cultivated in global scale since the 50s
listen to the end again, there are no banana strains to fall back on this time. That logically means TR4 can also infect the gros michel.
well there are still cases of the black plague which didn't affect most people since the middle ages.
@@leosong829 Unfortunately that doesn't apply for those two banana sorts. People, animals and plants gain immunity from diseases from genetic diversity. Mix the genes from two parents and chances are some of the offspring will be more resistant to a specific disease. Both Gros Michel and Cavendish are clones though so there is no genetic diversity whatsoever. Like all other domestic banana and plantains they are sterile so they can only propagate asexually.
All is not lost though. There are other domesticated banana variants that might be sutable replacements and since the two wild banana species they all originate from still exist and they still come up with sterile, seedless variants every now and then. (If you wonder why we can't simply eat wild bananas, it's because their seeds are big and hard as rock.)
@@tessjuel that, that proves my point
@@leosong829 Yes, it does.
ok, lets assume iceland is similar to greenland, this problem is not fixed
We'll be fine once all the Karens ™ realize that GMOs being bad for you is a crock of dookie
To be fair, there’s really no way to know the long term consequences yet. Personally, I’m less concerned about them being bad for ME as I am about them being bad for variety. For instance, GMO corn gradually wiping out and taking over other varieties through cross pollination and market drivers.
@@nude_cat_ellie7417 There's also no way to know the consequences of like every thing you eat, because that is changing every time, for all we know, a random allele swap during reproduction could make a cow poisonous.
@@nude_cat_ellie7417 I apologise, I might've misinterpreted your comment the first time I commented on it.
But yes, I agree, GMO crops can be bad for variety (in multipleways, biodiversity being one). (Although that's also the case with "conventional" crops.)
@@nude_cat_ellie7417 Good point, but this would be a problem even in the case of using 1 variety of heirloom plant. Monoculture being the root issue in both cases.
Why Half As Interesting videos will soon be Fully Interesting in a few years
When he uploads a video a bricks
Then he will have the permit to make his videos fully interesting
Whole as interesting
Humanity: has an extremely secure vault with all the seeds needed to continue growing our fruits and vegetables, just in case of major worldwide disaster
Also humans: the taste of banana today as we know it will be gone in a few years.
Problem is: bananas are one of the few stoopid plants that don't have seeds, so we really can't get them to Svalbard even if we wanted to
@@ИльяЕрмаков-з4л
That’s mostly because seed bananas were artificially selected to have smaller seeds. OG bananas had seeds the size of a soybean, but, well, people didn’t like having to pull out those giant blocks out of their fruit, so bananas got selected for seedless, and now every banana has to be cloned.
@@ИльяЕрмаков-з4л And do you know who’s fault that is?
Is it humanity’a fault for selecting majorly identical seedless bananas?
@@mossy_6475 is it your mom?
TR1 : look at me
Banana farmers : OK
TR1 : **I'm the captain now**
Phase 1:
grow all bananas on the moon for 50 years
Phase 2:
Kill all bananas on earth
Phase 3:
After 50 years bring the banana business back to earth
Enjoy