> I heard bananas today are completely unlike bananas of the past. That is because bananas of today is a completely different cultivar of banana. Up until the

> I heard bananas today are completely unlike bananas of the past. That is because bananas of today is a completely different cultivar of banana. Up until the 1950s the primary type of banana was the Gros Michel. This is also why artificial banana flavor doesn’t taste like bananas we have today. The artificial flavor was originally created when the Gros Michel was what people thought of when they thought of a banana.