Just Some Things About Food You Can Impress Your Friends With, And Other Things You’d Like To Forget

Many important moments in our lives center around food. Birthday cakes, Sunday dinners, lunch breaks with your coworker, and even that time where your older brother pranked you by spreading mayonnaise instead of butter on your toast and now the smell of mayo makes you nauseous.

While many of us are constantly being reminded of all the bad things in our diets, there is a lot that even your mom doesn’t know. I mean, did you know there’s an actual reason why your ketchup is hard to get out of the bottle? When you stop to think about what is allowed into our food and where it came from, you’d be surprised at the secrets your food holds.

Banana Candy Is Flavored After A Long Lost Banana

Let’s face it, food products that are flavored with another food never taste the same. Artificial flavors are created by a flavor chemist and involve hundreds of ingredients. In the case of banana flavored candies, many of us would agree that they definitely do not taste like the bananas we know and love.

That’s because we no longer eat the bananas they are flavored after. In North America, we eat mainly Cavendish bananas, but this was not always the case. The Gros Michel was the banana of choice until the Fusarium oxysporum fungus nearly wiped it out in the 20th century. The Cavendish took over, but the flavor in banana candies remain modeled after a much sweeter banana.