He did find that the artificial banana flavor tastes the way gros michel bananas smell when they’re very ripe, though. So I don’t think it’s wrong to say the flavor is based on the gros michel rather than the cavendish, it’s just that flavor is a really complex equation and artificial flavors tend to fail to capture the totality of the experience.
counterpoint: https://youtu.be/I9ZtvpBoXzI
TL;DW banana candy does not taste like gros michel either
He did find that the artificial banana flavor tastes the way gros michel bananas smell when they’re very ripe, though. So I don’t think it’s wrong to say the flavor is based on the gros michel rather than the cavendish, it’s just that flavor is a really complex equation and artificial flavors tend to fail to capture the totality of the experience.