People are only just realising why banana sweets tastes different to fresh fruit Have you ever wondered by artificial banana flavour, the kind you could get in those foam banana sweets of your childhood, doesn't taste like real banana?.
"So the Gros Michel banana tasted almost exactly like fake banana flavouring, and they've just never changed it.
Darragh explained: "So, the banana flavouring is what bananas used to taste like."
That banana flavouring mimics what bananas were like 75 years ago," he added.
The disease was called Fusarium wilt of banana, or FWB, which was caused by a fungal pathogen that kills a plant by blocking water and mineral transportation.
