Fun fact: artificial banana flavoring doesn't taste like modern bananas, but tastes more like varieties that used to be popular:

> So, when you’re biting into a piece of banana Laffy Taffy, you’re getting a taste of the bananas of the past. “That’s kind of why I think of these older, ‘cheap’ artificial flavors as ‘heirloom’ artificial flavors,” says Berenstein. “Because they’re the simpler formulas that have been less modified by time.”

from: https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/why-dont-banana-candi...