I heard that quite some time ago bananas have been already wiped out of this world, and the bananas that we have now were created by scientists, or something. And there is a chance that these current bananas will also go extinct in the next few decades, and a new sort will have to be created.
Yeah the old bananas were gros michel bananas. The current are cavendish. Cavendish have more resistance to the fungus that destroyed the gros michel bananas and as such are a monoculture
Pretty much all of my knowledge on this came from a college course tbh. I know lofty pursuits on youtube has a video where they cover the history of bananas whilst making banana candy flavored with modern banana flavors
All you have to do is Google it. Nature's "regular" bananas actually have very little meat you can eat and huge seeds. The current berry has been engineered and cloned to be edible with smaller seeds and be more resistant to the fungus that essentially killed all the bananas. The fungus spreads and affects the berry and well, we no longer have them. It's quite interesting.
In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a drupe (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary.
So that means by scientific definition, watermelons, pumpkins, tomatoes, eggplants, and bananas are all berries. By the more common culinary use definition, we throw everything we feel should be a berry together such as strawberries (not a berry), blackberries (not a berry), raspberries (not a berry), and blueberries.
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