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Elana Spivack

What is artificial banana flavor made of? A food neuroscientist reveals the truth


There are bananas, and then there are banana-flavored things. Laffy Taffy is my personal favorite, but Runts, Hi-Chews, and jelly beans also capture perhaps not this fruit’s essence but an idea of it.

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