The desperate race to find banana’s three missing ancestors

Solving the banana family tree might just save the fruit

Abbey
Food Science Fusion
5 min readOct 31, 2022

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Have you ever noticed that banana-flavored candy never tastes like the bananas you buy at the grocery store?

This isn’t due to bad flavoring or terrible product development.

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Abbey
Food Science Fusion

I’m a food scientist by PhD, a science writer, and a YouTuber. I’m fascinated by food science and enjoy writing and sharing what I’ve learn.