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The new banana isn't as sweet as the old banana and the old one doesn't seem to be coming back?
Being monocultures, (genetic clones) commercially grown edible bananas are extremely vulnerable to disease.
The currently most popular variant is the Cavendish, replacing the earlier and now extinct Gros Michel, wiped out by the Panama Disease (a fungus).
While the Gros Michel isn't coming back, people are apparently trying to create and grow new variants, as what happened before can happen again.
Do you mean the Gros Michel banana ? It went commercially extinct in the '60s due to a fungus. So, yeah, probably not coming back. Sadly, the Cavendish banana is also subject to the same fungus so may also get wiped out at some point in the future.
I guess not as I remember having some actually tasty imported bananas in 90's. No idea what happened but currently only even a bit tasty ones are natural and really small and still not as sweet.
Mmmmm, fusarium wilt!
It's still around. It just got replaced by the new banana for produce.
You can still buy Gros Michel bananas, they're just harder to find compared to a Cavendish.
Any ideas where to search or where to travel to find those?