Banana by dan koeppel6/8/2023 Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.įLATOW: Is it true that the song "Yes! We Have No Bananas" was written because of a shortage of bananas once? KPCC: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World." He joins us from KPCC. What happens if it makes its way to Latin America, where the U.S. But could our favorite fruit soon become history? Well, a lethal fungus is spreading through Cavendish banana plantations in Asia and Australia. We rely on them as a backbone of the banana split. We slice them on our oatmeal, in our cornflakes. So that's the one we eat, and we eat a lot of them, billions and billions of pounds each year. banana suppliers grow only one that we can get, the Cavendish. There are thousands of varieties of bananas, but the big U.S. You got other varieties of fruit like the tangerines, your tangelos, your mandarin oranges, your red and green seedless grapes, big variety there. Why is it when you go to the grocery store you can find a dozen kinds of apples? You got your McIntosh, your red delicious, your Granny Smiths.
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