Chock full of a potassium of information. 😁🍌
Harry Belafonte and Carmen Miranda were both influencial pop culture icons who raised the appeal of the banana. They made yellow sexy.
One thing that always discouraged me is how the original banana became extinct. Historically, did manufacturers try to cover up this juicy morsel of information? It might have made their product look a bit green. The variety we now eat is a completely different banana and flavor. The lost original is the unicorn of fruit as far as I am concerned.
This research article makes me wonder if greed was a major factor in how the popular version of the banana nearly disappeared forever. It must have been bigger than a mismanagement lack of foresight to misunderstand how to maintain the gold standard identity of the product.