# Why are there no banana-flavored Pop Tarts?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 5, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-banana-flavored-pop-tarts/458872 "2008-08-05T02:51:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-banana-flavored-pop-tarts/458872/21 "2008-08-06T16:51:39Z")

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[QUOTE=CairoCarol]

Of course, the bananas here are much more flavorful than the tasteless blobs sold in the US, …

Regarding artificial banana flavor, there was a SDMB thread on the subject of concentrated fruit flavorings a while ago, in which it was pointed out that most concentrated fruit flavorings that people dislike are in fact real - molecularly indistinguishable from the original product - and just reflect the fact that a really concentrated banana (or other) taste is yucky, not that it isn’t the true taste of a banana. Most likely, it is.  
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First off, I hope that the bananas you speak of are nothing like those in Jamaica.

Quite awhile back I read that research showed that youngsters today prefer artificial flavors over the real thing. I believe that strawberries were mentioned as an example.

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-banana-flavored-pop-tarts/458872/22 "2008-08-06T17:45:59Z")

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Mary-Ann used to make the best banana pop-tarts, the Skipper and I loved 'em!

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