A banana that doesn’t brown? Now that’s bananas! 🍌 

Tropic has developed some new bananas via gene editing that don’t brown after they are peeled, and have been approved for sale in the Philippines, Colombia, Honduras, the US and Canada

“Bananas are asexual,” said Gershon. “There’s no real breeding in bananas. We’re eating today the same bananas as our grandparents were eating in the 1950s. The only real opportunity we have to adjust the banana to meet the challenges the industry is facing is through gene editing.”

In addition to the bananas which are set to launch, the article touches on the myriad of ways in-progress teams are working on using gene editing to “update” our food supply. The team behind the purple tomato (remember that?) is working on super long lasting potatoes 🥔 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/gene-edited-non-browning-banana-cut-food-waste-tropic-norwich

if we can't change bananas without future science then how did we get from here to chaquita

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'Seeded banana aka wild banana (Musa balbisiana) is a wild banana species that is one of the ancestors to the common species cultivated today.

This fruit contains viable seeds. Plant them and grow your own seeded banana plants.'

What is that known as formally. I tried to reverse search this image and got nothing. I can tell you if you tell me. Unless my reverse search is right and you’re playing me and that’s a passionfruit 😂