Why are there no banana-flavored Pop Tarts?

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@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.

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