Why Banana Flavoured Foods Don't Taste Like Banana
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- 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.
“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
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 😔
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-
@@Sane_Mania *insert Vsauce music...*
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
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💀
Because.. because.. Alright! here me out.. Because it's artificial?
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.
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
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
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
I love how RUclips 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
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.
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
he went from explaining 200 pumps to how banana tastes 😂😂
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!
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.
that explains why i’m allergic to bananas but not the flavored foods
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
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.
This question had a much more interesting answer then I was expecting
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.
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
@@PataPtichou "Plant fungus" meaning a fungus that is harmful to plants
You can still find Big Mike, but it's gonna cost ya
Finally a RUclips 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
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
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.
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.
“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
The thing I like about the Cavendish bananas is that when they are cooked they have a nutty flavor to it.
That is the best rewind transition I've so far viewed/listened to 👍
Hey is that a Big Mike in your pocket or are you just happy to see me 🤣🤣
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...
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
Loved the video, great subject 👍
This is the video I never knew I needed to watch 😂
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
"Big mike is delicious"
"Wait what?"
"The gros michel"
"Oh okay"
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.
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
Banana antibiotic were a delicacy as a kid. Strong extint banana flavour
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
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"
*checks the comments*
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
For those saying gros Michel grow on a small scale....they're actually really popular.......or at least in Nigeria
Same thing in Venezuela
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.
you don’t know bananas until you’ve been to the tropics.
I have been there my whole entire life
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
Lol just imagine your friends say: i took 6inches of big Mike today 💀
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
This is actually really interesting
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
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.
Finally, an answer to the question I've had for years! Thank you!
The one short/TikTok where I feel like I didn’t completely waste my time
Loved Banana bubble gum as a kid.
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.
I remember making banana flavor out of vinyl gloves in high school
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
This was actually interesting.
Well that explains why I've always felt meh about the taste of bananas but love the taste of banana flavored candy.
Big mike still exists, my grandma had a farm for big Mike's when I was younger
I was blessed to know that this is 100% correct
I thought this was discredited? Just an urban legend on the Internet.
Like how strawberry flavoured stuff don't taste like strawberries
This is actually really cool
Here where I live big Mike is sold everywhere
As someone who lives in panama i see this as an absolute win
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
We grew these at the farm and they still growing they don’t make bananas every year but they are pretty good
Love this new channek keep going 👍👍
1910 was my favourite year for big mikes
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.
"Fortnite's Storm Surge mechanic"
"Why banana flavours don't taste like bananas"
Same RUclipsr.
Come to countries near equator. I’m from Malaysia and we have lots of banana varieties. From Pisang Raja (King Banana), Pisang Nipah (greenish banana), Pisang Raja Udang (red-ish banana) and so on..
We need to make some of theirs big mike’s
"Gros Michel" also had a longer shelf-life, which is the reason bananas became so popular. RIP the banana-flavored banana.
Girl: I really want that big Mike!
Mike: Wooo! Bet!
*in jail*
Mike: *SHE SAID SHE WANTED MY BIG MIKE!*
It’s funny because they’re usually smaller my uncle’s Indian and his parents grew these in their backyard.
They only had one banana tree but 3 big mango trees. The neighbor had a big ladder and cut the bushel or bundle or whatever you may call it and they it ripen on a stool in the kitchen, 10 years later, still the best bananas I’ve had. Chapati, butter, banana, and cinnamon gas af snack I invented at 11.
We will miss you Big Mike
Was literally wondering about this recently while eating them chocolate covered bananna sweets
great, now I feel sad that I wasn't alive to taste the gros michel banana
You are a ninja! Gross michelle 😂🔥 i hit the sub that moment! Hahaha big Mike! 😂😂😂😂
I never thought I’d be genuinely sad over losing a banana called Big Mike
R.I.P. Big Mike. You will be missed
Those were the best tasting bananas ever.
Screw bringing back the wooly mammoth. Bring back big mike!
I guess the Cavendish Laboratory did some genetic modding with the Big Mikey
respect to the people who were able to eat big mike bananas before they got dusted
Not wiped out at all. lack of homework got you there...
"alright so for this shot, just really look like you're showing someone how you eat a banana"
Gros michele still exist and can be ordered from specialty growers..its amazing
this is lifechanging
Now I really want to know how big mike bananas taste
Thank you! Now I can start a conversation with the girl working at the grocery store. 😉
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
"Why don't banana flavored foods taste anything like bananas"
You didn't have to cut me off-
When my sister's mother in law (Canadian) visited our country in Central America she was amazed that all fruit was so much tasteful an so much cheaper here 🇬🇹
"man, big mikes are my fav, they are always so tasty and big"
I always wondered why the Laffy taffy picture for a banana looks big af
I really want to try one of the old ones