• wolfrasin@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    The lost variety is the Runts candy banana and it makes me sad that it’s gross

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      19 hours ago

      Well. Artificial flavoring is typically identifying 1 or 2 compounds that occur within a fruit, whereas the fruit has dozens of these compounds. Imagine what artificial apple flavoring is to green apples - that’s what Runts is to the Gros banana.

      You can still get the Gros in some places but it’s not grown at scale, has to be isolated.