Can you still get a Gros Michel?
Can you still get a Gros Michel? But can you get a Gros Michel banana? Taste the World! The few countries that still produce the Gros Michel today mostly do so under another name: Thihmwe in Myanmar, Johnson in Cuba, Pisang Ambon in Malaysia. In Hawai'i, it is commercially grown as Bluefields. What did the Gros Michel taste like? Artificial banana flavor was a replication of the Gros Michel taste, not of the Cavendish. Artificial banana flavoring draws much of its taste from the inclusion of isoamyl acetate, an organic compound found naturally in all varieties of banana, but in...