Ever wondered why artificial banana flavour – the kind you'd find in those foam banana sweets from your childhood – doesn't quite match up to the taste of a real banana? Well, it turns out ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

reminiscent of those foam banana sweets from your childhood, doesn't quite match the taste of a real banana? It appears they do - or at least, they mimic what fresh bananas used to taste like.

This leads many to wonder why banana flavor tastes so different from the real thing. It turns out there's some fascinating science behind this taste discrepancy. Real bananas get their distinct ...