Bananas As We Know Them Are Doomed

There are thousands of types of bananas but Americans have eyes for only one kind -- the very marketable yellow Cavendish, which accounts for 95% of global banana exports. But this multi-billion dollar industry is under threat. A fungus called Panama Disease is rapidly infecting the world's Cavendish crops and could spell disaster for the monoculture-dependent worldwide banana trade.
VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung heads to the heart of banana country in Latin American and the Philippines to see the devastating effects of the disease and to investigate what the loss of the banana would really mean besides a less colorful lunchbox.
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VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung heads to the heart of banana country in Latin American and the Philippines to see the devastating effects of the disease and to investigate what the loss of the banana would really mean besides a less colorful lunchbox. WATCH NEXT: These Botanists Are Scaling Cliffs to Save Endangered Plants - kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2qxoKRqbriqrs0

[@lll870621345lll]

THEY SHOULD GET RID OF THE DISEASE.. NOT LOOK FOR A RESISTANT TYPE .. THEY ARE APROACHING IT WITH STUPIDITY.. SMH

[@marvingordon5685]

I don’t eat bananas

[@zapfanzapfan]

Civil war and genocide one day, banana plantations the next day... she gets around!

[@marctaleanvillacorta9602]

@@lll870621345lll Did it ever crossed your brilliant mind that they already tried that route you rich ass ignorant boy?

[@koantao8321]

Talking of sexual harassment! That must have felt uncomfortable for Ms. Yeung. Kudos for her professionalism.

[@rafaelgarcia5797]

“I am resistant to cancer and you are not, we must have sex” My man smooth af

[@koshisunuwarrai]

True. 👍😎

[@ArchonLicht]

ROFL

[@cremecrimson9035]

The female is ready for the sex today.

[@jeffreyyang6905]

@@cremecrimson9035 Only today lol

[@Effortless23Beauty]

Rafael Garcia Can’t say no to that🤔😆

[@itan7346]

Her vice team travelled to 3 countries to document bananas. Respect.

[@robert9016]

Governments have been overthrown to ensure Americans have bananas, it’s actually quite a big deal

[@seancarroll6511]

The vice team paid for her to go, not her.

[@sparkeyjones6261]

@@seancarroll6511 And, so? What's your point?

[@HusseinDoha]

@@robert9016 Utter bullshit!! I'm not American and these countries screwed themselves.

[@jesset3395]

That's bananas

[@OMalleyTheMaggot]

"How is it possible that a banana can be so cheap?..." ..."Military force" Well THAT escalated quickly

[@schiros123]

South America was farmed by North America...If people only knew history.

[@tubester4567]

Now all the Latin American countries sell cocaine instead and kill millions of lives.

[@crazyhorsewww]

@@tubester4567 people have to make a living one way or another . Some time they have no choice . It is sad . Some time it is between live or die .

[@kittywinchester8482]

@@tubester4567 they planned it that way

[@halfinfected5392]

@@tubester4567 *now America farms Latin America for cocaine and influences them into killing millions for profit

[@jamesrogers4674]

11:45 best pickup line ever. Definitely going to use that one.

[@robertmanley2198]

He had a banana in his pants.

[@t0nicss867]

Her looking so offended pissed me off to be honest. Like how are you gonna be a reporter and not have tough skin, dudes analogy was solid and she took it there.

[@t0nicss867]

@armenian kurds yallah

[@jashsylde8136]

@@t0nicss867 What r u saying, they fc.kd all afternoon in the plantation. Ask the harvesters. they probably caught it on Whatsapp Stories. Haha

[@darrellsmith4204]

Old Juan is a local legend with that "cancer" pickup line..

[@DR-54]

@@realeconomy5348 dude hybridization and phenotypes are literally 7th-9th grade science and statistically men and women are just as smart as each other so the average female would understand the hybridization involved in the joke. Somebody from the 1600s would probably also get the joke before alleles were even discovered, because common thought before then was it was 50/50 on traits.

[@realeconomy5348]

@@DR-54 Dude, lots of women do not catch on to humor. If you do not know this, I'm sorry for you.

[@DR-54]

@@realeconomy5348 tf kinda women you talking to they're pretty much just weaker, slightly more emotional men.

[@ryibmu]

😂😂😂 Yo ya'll are killing me mehn

[@liligman]

Darrell Smith BB if I were a cell, I’d go rogue for you ❤️

[@chiefyovany572]

My mans was waiting his whole life to say that pick up line about cancer

[@financialwizard5181]

😂😂😂😂

[@TheTrue32]

She was so creeped out, poor thing. Closes shirt tighter, restrains desire to cringe just in case it a horrible language translation issue or scene can be somehow professional. Ick.

[@TheTrue32]

Why dont they just spend money on a marketing campaign to retrain us to not be dumb about the aesthetic? 🐒

[@nicholaswhorley8343]

@@TheTrue32 Lol her closing her shirt is edited doofus. It's opened in the next shot and then closed once again the following shot. She's fine lol.

[@Kelvin921115136175]

I was having the same thought as well

[@DrejaAndi]

"I'm resistant to cancer, and I'm sure you are not. So, we better make love to save the human race, and we must do it TODAY." -Creepy Banana Breeder

[@robertmanley2198]

He had a banana in his pants.

[@ujjwalmondal7783]

😁😁😁

[@onlybananas4653]

He doesn’t just breed bananas

[@KC-jb9eg]

it didn't just end there...close your eyes and listen to the 20 seconds after that lol

[@motrhead69]

I want to see Isobel eat a banana

[@nancydrew1882]

I grew up in Jamaica. There’s a farm behind my house. We have Gros Michel, Lacatan, Apple bananas and Frog bananas. Those are real bananas, not that bland tasting Cavendish that’s sold commercially.

[@mr.dr.k3148]

I love bananas. I usually have one, daily--a Cavendish, of course. I'd love to try other varieties if they were avaliable for purchase. After watching this video, it seems preposterous that A Cavendish Banana is the only Banana avaliable in US Supermarkets.

[@alanmacification]

The most popular banana was the Gros Michel. But it suffered the same fate as the Cavendish that replaced it. It was attacked by a tropical fungus and now can't be commercially grown.

[@prog.rocker]

@@mr.dr.k3148 - I grew up on Gros Michel... they didn't completely leave the market until the late 1900s. i did notice the change -- LOTS of things more than taste are diff from GM -- such as speed of ripening and what happens to them if they get a bit overripe.

[@mr.dr.k3148]

@@prog.rocker Huh, that's very interesting. So, from what I understand, when the narrator says, "commercially extinct," due to disease they cannot grow a specific type of produce commercially, however, such produce can still thrive domestically or in small gardens? It will be interesting to see how this plays-out.

[@rebeccaanderson5626]

In India we still have got the traditional banana with crap tons of seeds . Banana evolved in the humid tropical regions of S.E. Asia with India as one of its centres of origin.

[@balazs7235]

My mans wasn’t joking, he only tried to disguise his wishes with this banana ordeal

[@katlegorapelang1048]

Sex

[@maxthemillion9195]

Imagine working a serious job and really trying hard just for people to know you as Dan the Banana Man

[@jameswarren2894]

Dan the banana man 🤣🤣 thats catchy... id rock it

[@jennatolls8369]

@@jameswarren2894 coulda been Dan the panty man.. that raise so many questions then answers lol

[@kristinowens899]

Nothing wrong with that!!

[@nerdinspace.]

I would love to be called Dan the Banana Man

[@octaviusgalacticus2253]

@@nerdinspace. same

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

Honestly, I was not aware of this, as an Indian. Bananas are native here, and we have at least five varieties. We have a couple of them in our backyard

[@Aloewells]

Don't worry, INDIA's diversity of trees r resistant to anything. That small sweet resistant banana they shown in called CHAKRAKELI.

[@sandyjust]

India has 163 types of it.

[@luqmanhamdan9285]

Same here in South East Asia, I have many of them in the backyard.

[@abhishekgadag9457]

You got it wrong mate, bananas are originally from Indonesia-Malaysia-New Guinea-Australia.. they are not native to India, they never were.. My family has been in the banana farming business for decades, My great Grandpa started it. although we have recently switched to Sugarcane/turmeric.. ..

[@sandyjust]

@@abhishekgadag9457 not sure of the origin. I need check this out. What we meant that we do have a great varieties of bananas.

[@scarekrooo2489]

That must have been the most uncomfortable explanation for her. "I am resistant to cancer, you are not" she closes her shirt as he says this lol.

[@ramishrambarran3998]

The man has no class !! Very rude !

[@Epillon]

Dr Aguilar; "We must make love to save all the banana's!" Isobela; "I'm really going to miss bananas"

[@nskumar6394]

Whose?

[@edwinmendoza2032]

He was creepy.

[@change8606]

@@edwinmendoza2032 you are creepy

[@edwinmendoza2032]

Not as creepy or as thirsty as Dr. Aguilar. 😂😂😂

[@change8606]

@@edwinmendoza2032 :D I think he doesnt know english so well

[@dalebrion4876]

Old Juan doing his part to prevent cancer that day.

[@lisaadair7108]

Is no one going to talk about my mans face at 9:52 "He's like awww man this taste so nasty" but the people running the ad campaign are like "No, no it's good you like it remember?"

[@bibiandjoshua]

Now came across this. In the Caribbean we have a lot of varieties and the ones with the black spots tastes the sweetest.

[@ttun100]

Yes, the little fat finger bananas, They grow in the Bahamas. Love them too.

[@bibiandjoshua]

@@ttun100 chikito

[@zzzzzzzzzzz4543]

as soon as the guy said, "we need to make love", I instantly scrolled to the comments

[@alvaropineda6986]

Me too lol great minds think alike.

[@LathropLdST]

That made three of us

[@jamalf9285]

Big Facts

[@zzzzzzzzzzz4543]

​@NonyaBusiness! think you missed the point, big dog... no need to dismiss something i didn't condemn

[@neomcdoom]

KsKeeZ 710 Lol me too

[@kstephen1519]

Dr Aguilar: “The female is ready to make sex today. Only today.”🤣😂

[@kstephen1519]

Fiker Gaming Master of the subliminal message.🤣😂

[@hempwick8203]

So scripted and cringey, Just like Live PD.

[@HeilRay]

The urgency turns the most dry panties into Niagra falls.

[@ol2rap]

I got to remember to use that line next time I meet a hot chick. LOL!!

[@zeken4094]

pretty sure i'm not the only banana that has heard that line................for realz

[@David-yf5fo]

A professor of horticulture once told me that he had never seen a banana seed until the day he did his thesis defense. One of his committee members handed him an object and asked him what it was. He did not know.

[@cobidbeksin5200]

Meanwhile i cursed whenever I ate a banana and found seeds in it

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@@cobidbeksin5200 other vafienties have seeds especially less edible .

[@helloworld6505]

Im from the Philippines and planting banana is our source of income. It is sad to think that we are battling with uncurable diseases.

[@bikinggal1]

people need to stop being so picky about the looks of fruit and veg...In Mexico you can go to the markets and they have 20 dif kinds of bananas..all are delish

[@unotorres2748]

Dont judge a fruit by its skin but judge it by its taste. My grandmother told us to buy bananas with flaws on the skin because that is an indicator that it is sweet.

[@juniorr2646]

Yes 💯💯💯absolutely

[@giths19]

I would argue that this is not the consumer's doing. Look how no one batted an eye when the Gros Michel was replaced by Cavendish.These companies spent a lot of money convincing the consumer that they need a perfect fruit and vegetable. This in-turn allows them convert their farms into mono-cultures that reduces costs and increases their profits.

[@sevnlight6313]

Have fun with your fruit flies 🤗

[@jayb4569]

I love bananas. I would love to try other types but my supermarket only carries 2 types.

[@bluebison2805]

Anyone else thought that Dr. JUAN AGUILAR was trying to shoot his shot?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@manekain9831]

Blue Bison wth

[@manekain9831]

What time?

[@WardofSquid]

@@manekain9831 11:37

[@Arcamedi1]

Lady didn’t know it was an analogy and thought he was for real lol

[@studyaccount2544]

As a honduran myself, we tend to do that haha

[@valrina]

"We need to make love" things reporters don't expect to hear when reporting about fruit.

[@MaxItUpwithMarta]

Living in Miami, FL USA I've always had bananas growing in my yard. They just keep growing and have a bunch of pups. Planted one tree and it gave me pups and bananas for years.

[@AlexHand]

11:43 this is the smoothest jungle pitch for a banana hook up I've ever heard

[@varunemani]

U kidding me this interview was totally worth it for that Dr. guy, to actually say what he said to an interviewers face on camera first time ever probably made her blush a little.. Wonder if she likes 💓 it.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Southeast Asian bananas: _laughs in genetic diversity_

[@anitabedi3951]

South Asian bananas.... Southeast Asia bananas (Luke) I am your father.

[@kswsquared]

Exactly. I don't even eat the Cavendish.

[@feeltheslipstream]

@nomar Dinkleberg give it time. You'll get there, don't worry.

[@roadrunna0075]

deathbait What if he’s from a country where they don’t eat dogs, sip bat soup and shit in public?

[@CALIMA2000]

@@roadrunna0075 you mean country like Italy or America or Germany, they must be a save heaven from coronavirus right ;

[@songsabai3794]

Growing-up in Canada I never liked banana until I moved to Thailand and picked several different varieties of banana ripening on the tree. The taste is incredible. Sadly, the bananas from "banana-land" are all picked and shipped before the natural sugars form,making them taste bland and chalky. The same goes for many other fruits. The use of gas, a mixture of ethylene/nitrogen, to make the banana ripe doesn't help the flavor, only the look.

[@nonec384]

but bananas are haversted like that other wise its probaly all gonna rot and be masmashed in the way out of the farm ,even when you live close to the farm

[@songsabai3794]

@@nonec384 Thanks for stating the obvious. The point is, you who live faraway from Banana-land are stuck with an inferior product and forced to pay a premium price. There are lots of food stuffs that have been adulterated in order to meet market demands. Rice for example, is 'polished' for longer shelf life. In the process of polishing most of the vital nutrients are lost. Brown rice is better. Although fruit picked before the natural sugars can form is not a man-made processing deal,but it does essentially render it 'adulterated' from its natural process.

[@nonec384]

@@songsabai3794 i live far from central america but banana tree can grow in my backward .....there one growing right now ,but i dont like bananas anyways , and i have eaten brown rice it takes forever to cook and it has a taste that may not be for everyone

[@nonec384]

@@songsabai3794 but i think fruit i have eaten right from the tree is guava and it has the same taste as the one i get in the city and even better sometimes becuz its bigger and is allways ripe

[@songsabai3794]

@@nonec384 .....Im not trying to convince you of anything other than stating the fact that fruit picked and gassed for instant ripening will never taste as good as natural sugar formation.This of course doesn't mean all fruits only the ones that have a lot of sugar in their flavor, guava not being one of those fruits. So, you live in semi-tropical clim? banana growing out your door,lucky for you. So many people in Canada have to shovel snow just to open their door and go buy bananas --haha.

[@penzman]

Our grocers seem to insist on us shopping for bananas with our eyes. They should be in the loop, offer different breeds and add signage with images about the new breed and it's look at different stages.

[@jennhoff03]

I was just thinking the same thing! If there was a sign saying that in this brand the marks don't mean anything, it would start changing the way consumers buy it. I've heard that you actually want a watermelon that has a flat, yellowed side bc that means it's had time to sit and ripen. And now I don't buy the perfectly oval, uniform-looking watermelons anymore. People aren't stupid, they just need to be informed.

[@natehecimovich3165]

This woman goes from rotting skeletons in Iraqi rubble to fruit like its nothing.

[@JH-hb5cc]

Nate Hecimovich the history of the United Fruit Company is probably equally as bloody, if not more

[@ledrgblampontiktok7976]

Its history

[@mediaskate648]

Jason Huang any good videos or reads? I'm interested

[@herpderp7264]

"Woman" Did you just assume her gender? I expect better from Vice viewers.

[@Harry-cy5vz]

@@herpderp7264 it's 2020 let it die bro

[@atexaninkorea1773]

The reporter's face when the farmer said "sex" and "you," priceless. Lol. She was about to go bananas!

[@hempwick8203]

no she wasn't, that was scripted. Similar to reality television.

[@charlesmichaels6648]

They are actors. Good Hollywood script.....

[@yeetbaljeeet5435]

Isn’t this journalism?? Why would they have actors

[@HeilRay]

@@yeetbaljeeet5435 Cause fake news and Hollywood go hand in hand

[@charlesmichaels6648]

@@yeetbaljeeet5435 Journalism is now all theature, & courts decided news need not tell any Truth, cause this is just Show Business (Propaganda). Football is merely entertainment, so cheating is permitted according to courts. (Isaiah 5:20).

[@Ericshadowreaper]

11:44 my pickup line to women when I arrive at a night club

[@TheKingkingg]

Greed by companies making patents is one of the biggest threat to food supplies.

[@greys2015]

I honestly never thought I'd find a documentary about bananas so interesting. Good job VICE.

[@vavaleo8316]

Say his name more like.

[@idk-gb4hn]

MY NAME

[@philochristos]

You should read the book. I had no idea it could be that interesting.

[@user-rw4tu3pv7e]

See my banana farm kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3aVcnScprZ9b5I

[@nadominhoca]

I honestly never thought I'd find a documentary so useless trying to Demonize the Big Companies over Banana production....

[@zacheap6327]

I never realised I've been eating inferior tasting Bananas the whole time.

[@XX-gy7ue]

I do , although the taste of Cavendish bananas is ok , it's much duller then the taste or the Gros Michel banana , but you can't eat what you don't have !

[@epikmusic]

@Chris Ruiz They do exist. I know of a 'bite' size banana in the West Indies; specifically Trinidad & Tobago. The banana measures around 3" to 4" at most (yes it is YELLOW) and it is much sweeter than the basic Cavendish, with a smooth silky consistency when bitten. Not offered in the US!

[@Tuberuser187]

Its also why lots of banana flavoured things don't taste like bananas, the synthetic banana flavourings where formulated using Gros Micheal banana taste.

[@XX-gy7ue]

@Chris Ruiz , hi in New York those are sold in the stores , maybe ' two bite size ' ( like about the size of a thumb ) but they taste like the Cavendish , so it's not impressive , but cute !

[@TUBESPECIFIC1]

I found out when I traveled to Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia around 10 years ago. It was most incredible to see and experience some of the other side. The food, art, music, and culture are amazing in lots of countries far from America and Europe. Despite the good old fashion quality, most of it is very cheap and affordable for this a very classical old world sort of thing based on small business economies centering around families, values, and traditions. Can we say cheap and mostly honest? Absolutely despite that not being the case in the US at all.

[@venryt]

11:51 damn thats pretty good pick up line....wonder it works

[@ttun100]

By the look on her face, it didn't.

[@masonfarnsworth6730]

12:43 ...... every man knows the feeling.

[@tinaj99353]

"you buy with your eyes" applies to many facets of American culture.

[@smith97320]

Thats why tomatoes are so bland. The chemical that produces the taste also causes brown spots on the skin. So they bred out that gene to create a uniform red tomato.

[@birgenkandie1374]

He sounded like an old African man.

[@MemoryException]

Also explains “red delicious” apples. They look great but are lousy!

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

@@MemoryException like baby wipes Check out "wild explorer" if you'd like to learn more about the edible fruits of this planet

[@joelfigueroa1309]

Of humankind. Americans, British,etc

[@chrisarfath3382]

11:48 she understood what he is about tell and she covered up

[@animewatch4213]

I wonder how many creepy line the said before that scene. Biologically, his word are kinda correct, but said it in a creepy way.

[@saifeerahman4925]

@Caleb M. F Amen to that.

[@dvdrwsor]

If you go dressed like a slut, expect someone hinting to have sex with you.

[@heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa3292]

The Mute she’s wearing a long sleeve shirt 😂

[@madamehoefyre1808]

@@dvdrwsor Okay incel.

[@mountainmover777]

11:38 Nice try Juan... I love how she covers herself! She knows what's coming. He tries to seal the deal at 12:06. Lol...

[@syberphish]

that shot was heavily edited. Her top is open then closed then open then closed while he's talking.

[@solarnaut]

@@syberphish is that just the exotic flower pedals flapping in the tropics ?

[@syberphish]

@@solarnaut Could be, could be.

[@terryadams2652]

Yeah, i was cringing watching that.

[@minorsuarez418]

he probably did. we will never know.

[@tomriddle007]

Great content. Very educational

[@adamschoedel8829]

I'd be totally willing to try different varieties of bananas if they were available. To be honest, it sounds kind of exciting.

[@realeconomy5348]

That's also what she says.

[@biz6361]

i’m sure you would adam

[@TIRFemcel]

same here

[@stantondinger5836]

That's the key, you can only buy what's available. Businesses want cheap labor and cheap products. Anything that is not profitable for them is not going to be chosen for sale or provided by those businesses.

[@tmoney5036]

Adam u dirty boy

[@DougM63]

I’m guessing old Juan ended up “peeling” his own banana that night

[@interstaffing]

Nah.. he's got a monkey that does it, but it was a very naughty monkey that night and it earned a spanking. ;)

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

lol!!!

[@michaelscolfield14]

Hahahaaha

[@RaoulDukeSr]

Hahahahahaha I was waiting for that !

[@jumbo2944]

He tried though. Lol

[@youguyshearthat]

loved that thanks !! i actually watched the whole thing .

[@bryanadams256]

11:40 That's one hell of a pickup line!

[@marjanp]

Judging by her reaction it was a bad call.

[@RazeDee]

Sheesh that man a straight shooter saying "today, only today" lmao

[@ChristianNorge]

Latino Borat lul

[@dakotac9547]

She is sticky she is ready for sexytime today. Only today

[@dakotac9547]

@@ChristianNorge hahaha

[@glamorsocial7081]

Feminists might hate that line!😂💩👁👁

[@Joebius1]

Americans might have eyes for only one kind of banana for the simple reason that they are the only kind offered.

[@elchucofried5683]

@ArmchairWarrior have you ever been to Texas???

[@amberjohnson5488]

Agreed we will try new bananas look what we did for the friggn jack fruit we love new kinds of produce good point

[@Heebu100]

@@elchucofried5683 Hey guy, the united states isn't within texas.

[@mudejartrainingnaturalscie6938]

Agriculture clears every landscape they can, destroying billions of fruit trees and millions of species of fruits. Then they force usnto buy this horseshit imitation sterile product.

[@idontevenknow3707]

Thats not what he meant though, Americans tend to buy aesthetically pleasing bananas - aka no black marks on them and perfectly shaped. If you were to introduce the type that get marks on them but are still good on the inside, they wont sell, because they buy with their eyes. They know this because americas don't even buy the normal Cavendish bananas if they're not perfectly shaped and yellow coloured.

[@schiros123]

Oh my word 11:49...I love how he starts using her as an example of reproduction and she covers up immediately! The amount of flirtation I've witnessed her put up with ON SCREEN during interviews is just obscene.

[@marjanp]

She's a very unprofessional journalist.

[@cyka6767]

@@marjanp how?

[@Ericshadowreaper]

i'll use that pickup line in a night club or something, favorite part in video

[@janicefrantz1831]

Yeah, don't you just hate men who are men. Sickening.... 😆

[@Horologica]

That's gross tbh..

[@sadafhusain2059]

The one at 10:51 looks similar to what we have here and theres plenty of them in the market. Their skins do are filled with black spots but they taste way better then the long dry ones

[@drewcookies]

Just found my new pickup line... "So... I'm resistant to cancer...."

[@svampebob007]

"I'm resistant to dying, never have had a death in my life"

[@acrispywaffleiron4014]

@@svampebob007 lucky! I've dead like 8 times now

[@andrewbrachio616]

Me: I dropped the Cancer bond in the office The judge: ... gave me an orange suit for my sick banana

[@sandwich2473]

I'd personally like to have a wide variety if bananas to choose from.

[@unlink1649]

I know right? I think these people heavily underestimate the consumers. If they would go "yo, full disclosure, this does not look like much, but it tastes amazing", i would buy that banana.

[@TUBESPECIFIC1]

I've noticed that two other varieties are showing up in US super markets the past several years. Red bananas and tiny finger bananas, but they're pricey and not nearly as good as the much cheaper organic Cavendish bananas from Ecuador. We have the most varieties of food we've ever had, but still not like you get in a tropical or even subtropical area such as southern California. Our farmers markets don't go year round and are over priced the 3 or 4 months they are operating. Wouldn't you love more selection, better prices, and things like round vine ripened tomatoes and fresh everything else market year round? Lots of Western country people like Americans and Australians live in such places, but they're either financial independent or they're on sojourn doing a gap year or perhaps teaching English as a second language to kids in countries like Mexico and Thailand for there aren't the wide variety of usual jobs on offer to foreigners.

[@spxdes4223]

In Canada they are 2x as expensive as always...

[@MrSuperG]

Sandwich247 me too

[@stormysmom222]

Me too!!!

[@irishsantos6068]

I was born & lived in the Philippines, and tasted different type of bananas, and I agree that the banana I bought here in store looks pleasantly nice but is so inferior in taste.

[@raymondkidwell7135]

Living in Florida I can say that the cavendish store variety is the blandest tasting I have tried (and also they pick them green rather than ripening on the vine which takes away flavor). They just use that variety because of large size and large crops. It's all about $$ getting more pounds per acre. Recently stores started selling some more expensive different types of bananas which I like better. Anyway its not hard to cross breed bananas. They just take pollen from the seedless one and cross it with a seed banana. Just not much effort has gone into breeding new commercial bananas.

[@zelmatrix731]

Thanks for the video, It was very informative and keep up the great work you are doing.

[@imph1l]

11:56 The look on her face xD That bloke was waiting his whole life to throw that pickup line :D

[@Nik.No.K]

"Okay."

[@artcasperos]

I came down to the comments exactly for this lol

[@georgenbaldomero233]

@@artcasperos So did I.

[@sfax]

I can't read that facial expression, was that a rejection? The guy sounded like he knew what he was doing.

[@solarnaut]

12:49 "by Aguilar's own estimate it takes about 12,000 bananas to find a single seed " this is not his first banana rodeo . . . it's a numbers game . . . legend has it that he won't solve the banana crisis until . . . the last female reporter on earth has been to his" plantation "

[@dewzapistol7227]

“You buy with your eyes” this is crazy true wow

[@AlexanderBukh]

patent RGB bananas, quick!

[@ravencove8538]

It was very brief but very DEEP and true statement.

[@tmoney5036]

@@AlexanderBukh lol

[@jimmymifsud1]

Honestly man, this hit hard.. it's so true

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Itz DewZaPistol : Sounds a little too much like EU Carrot uniformity.

[@RebelScumJack]

Thanks for the info! Godspeed and God bless!

[@americanpaisareturns9051]

“Consumers like America, for instance, you buy with your eyes.” Very True.

[@scribtoon7146]

11:37 now that is one *very* Latin man

[@684avatar]

Americans buy with their eyes. Most truest statement ever.

[@sansei397]

American romance be like

[@xblowsmokex]

I’m honestly curious how the rest of the world buys????

[@MrLucijan]

This is true for most people and most countries, if not all.

[@xblowsmokex]

Lucijan Ratajc ok thank you for confirming this.

[@darthhater3989]

I actually buy with my cash.

[@GatorMike79]

What a great story! Very informative

[@prospervandale6818]

I’m genuinely in love with isobel, she’s SO well spoken and elegant!

[@danyf3116]

How to make a girl uncomfortable: "We need to make love"

[@charlesmichaels6648]

But you do remember his explanation.....

[@lore2587]

It is for cancer 😂😂😂 trust me

[@charlesmichaels6648]

@@lore2587 They have a great script.....

[@danyf3116]

@@charlesmichaels6648 Yes but most people would not say something like this to someone they don't know. The reporter really isn't hard on the eyes if you ask me. Tell me he didn't have a sexual thought behind this and I'll convince you I'm still a virgin. ☺

[@charlesmichaels6648]

@@danyf3116 They are actors. They have a great script.... (remember the story)

[@1nvd]

11:45 I’m going to use this line...

[@daniellevy1703]

12:27-12:44 one four eight eight

[@mohammedalkahlout3596]

@@daniellevy1703 what does that mean?

[@skipskops]

This is SO interesting....and so very very sad.

[@VomicaEmanio]

I hope we'll see variation eventually. I love the variation of apples and other fruits we have, so why not the same for bananas?

[@firstnamelastname-im5iz]

The best bananas I've ever eaten were growing wild outside my friend's home in rural northeast (Isaan) Thailand. They were shorten and fatter than those you see in the grocery stores in the USA.

[@bpcgos]

Yeah, in my country also grow a species banana that is smaller,much smaller banana, delicious

[@tj7179]

Yes I've heard that... And probably BC they are real bananas. Someone told me just several weeks ago that our bananas aren't real and that's the first I've ever heard anyone say that. But now I see.

[@cruzsanchez3647]

i live in Pico Rivera a suburb of Los Angeles . i have grown those style of bananas the short fat ones . they are sweet and just as good. now im growing mangoes , avocados, naval oranges, guavas, and papayas oh yea those small corona beer style limes all in my backyard that is only about 60 sq. ft. i almost forgot a couple of sativa weed plants

[@SMunro]

Were they a red-cavendish hybrid?

[@slimydick23]

so you ate a choad huh

[@squirrel9999]

Sex-Ed classes will never be the same...

[@g2glors20]

69 likes

[@theoelliott5944]

Fun fact: my great-great-great granduncle Sir Joseph Paxton cultivated the Cavendish banana. He was also a greenhouse architect who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, served as a Member of Parliament, and was knighted by Queen Victoria.

[@officialpowerofbanana]

sad to see thishappen

[@LogInfinity]

Dr. Aguilar, cross-polinating creepiness since 1996.

[@lcst]

So true lmao

[@JB-wg8id]

ahaha too right

[@-_M___M_-]

11:47 casually hiding her boobs from the creep.

[@daniellevy1703]

Go deeper.

[@GrandMasterAbe]

I hope she reads this

[@themadhatter196]

I've been saying this for years. Its already happened before to another banana crop. Genetic diversity in agricultural crops are coming to a turning point.

[@dertythegrower]

This is what happens when everyone grows one kind of human, or one kind of plant, its called monocropping and the planet ends up killing them off eventually by some unseen mutaded to adapt, uncurable disease. This also has happened to chocolate plants last decade, its why chocolate bar went up in price and down in size.

[@themadhatter196]

@James Horton Yeah... maybe you can make sense?

[@Vickyyxoxo]

James Horton why do you have to be so rude?

[@brandonwiebe2647]

Exactly. SciShow had an episode about this 6 years ago. The banana candy you can buy today is what bananas used to taste like until they all got wiped out

[@dharmdevil]

GMOs saves the day yet again

[@quinto190]

very good documentary

[@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083]

Never been so proud of having two varieties of banana in my garden; none of them are Cavendish.

[@Abcflc]

I would buy different kinds of bananas just like we do with apples... and I don't need them to be all shiny and plastic looking...

[@NotInformedOfficial]

We all learned the smoothest banana pick-up line we can use at bars. Old Juan is the man!

[@rachelcookie321]

I would honestly prefer a good tasting banana over a good looking banana. I think you could sell it but you have to market it different. Put up signs in grocery stores explaining about it and how to tell when it’s ripe. Once people start eating it then they’ll be sold.

[@DiabloOutdoors]

Very good. Well done!

[@madebybronson4648]

I've been wanting a more diverse selection of fruits and vegetables when I got to the grocery, turns out there are over 1000 types of bananas I'm missing out on. Btw this lady is fine af

[@LastbutNotFirst]

my new fruit is mangosteen. crazy benefits. most the benefits in the rind though.

[@kelly2fly]

@LastbutNotFirst I fell in love with the mangosteen when I visited Vietnam years ago. Very difficult to find them fresh in USA and quite pricey too. I didn't know the rind was edible.

[@LastbutNotFirst]

@@kelly2fly i have not had the fresh fruit, its a goal tho.. i buy the powder with the rind ground up.. from terrasoul. not great tasting, kind of bland.. gritty due to the rind.. but healthy... the rind contains all the xanthones or whatever they are called.. 20 of 'em. super potent medicinal properties in the rind. anti-cancer, anti parasitic, anti bacterial. etc.. the tree takes 10-20 years to bare fruit.. which is why i became interested.. hardest to grow plant on earth.

[@hectorb8914]

No one: Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Behold the Pollinator- the person who makes seks with banana

[@zZiL341yRj736]

You=every idiot in KZbin ever.

[@TheBarefootedGardener]

Not very… aPEELing 😂this was fantastic. So glad you actually spent time talking about monocultures; not enough people know about the dangers of them. There is a guy in Costa Rica named Brandon McKeon who has the original Gros Michel & others in a food forest and that works. I actually hope that There isn’t a variety that can replace Cavendish because panama disease all the other diseases that have proliferated because of monocultures hopefully we can learn our f*king lesson. Even the “resistant“ strains will eventually succumb to the disease and it will make a “super disease”

[@jomargumboc9429]

the darker yellow one on the right at 10:53 and the one with some bruises on skin at 10:58 is what we call Saba - they are incredibly sweet once ripe - we Filipinos cook it for desserts like Banana Cue (Saba fried in brown sugar and put on sticks), Halo-Halo (shaved ice mix), Minatamis/Jams and even in main dishes like Bulalo, Pochero (both are beef soup), Arroz ala Cubana (ground beef/pork in tomato-based stew), etc.. sometimes we just boil it and eat it as it is, no added sugar or sweeteners needed the lighter yellow one on the left at 10:53 and the one being peeled looks like Lakatan - it is less sweeter but it doesn't need to be cooked, unlike Saba - we peel and eat it after meals as aid to digestion, and doctors recommend it to potassium-deficient patients thinking about it, i feel sad for USA for sticking to just Cavendish and missing out on various banana flavors

[@Erikali26]

This was a really great episode and she is a great journalist! 13:57 "I'll save the bananas for you." "Yes, why not? Why not?"

[@shiningmyduggy]

11:48 Shoot your shot Mr. Aguilar, shoot your shot 👍

[@daniellevy1703]

Go deeper, you will find the answers.

[@dk302948]

First of all, great video. Thanks for the research. I stumbled upon this video because my dad said bananas are bad for you, and I said “bullshit!”. I decided I was going to look into this to see for myself. My dad only said bananas are bad for you because he had heard somewhere they are causing problems with inflammation. (And probably because he already dislikes them, and now he found someone who also says bananas are bad.). As I was watching this clip, something clicked inside me. Is the mass media and our doctors trying to weaken the blow that bananas are possibly going to be extinct in a short amount of time (if they don’t find a cure for TR4), by telling us that bananas are bad for us...so we won’t miss them, or will stop eating them and relying on them before they are gone???!? Side note: I’m going to keep eating bananas for as long as I am able to.

[@ooo3940]

Yes more variety...

[@entropicpedro]

I literally just came here for the Juan comments... wasn't dissapointed

[@solarnaut]

12:49 "by Aguilar's own estimate it takes about 12,000 bananas to find a single seed " this is not his first banana rodeo . . . it's a numbers game . . . legend has it that he won't solve the banana crisis until . . . the last female reporter on earth has been to his" plantation "

[@blackachilles8745]

@@solarnaut who else would put curing seed into her banana flower ? 🙂😍

[@janikb3538]

The sex jokes shouldn’t be taken too seriously. In some Latin Americans cultures its just part of the humor. Y’all need to chill

[@futbolplaya07]

This depends on whether you think each culture should define what is right or wrong or if humanity as a whole can have principled ideals

[@barrymcockiner2674]

@Uden One-Eye you are completely right people are going to do things without thinking

[@FieryRedDonkeyOfHell]

@Uden One-Eye Yeah let me just go back in time and not listen. B r u h your logic is broken

[@caveman1416]

Some? U mean all, until you say something about thier family, then its not a joke no more

[@whoamipl]

I agree. Maybe they just see banana reproduction as love. It's so sweet, that they're comparing it to humane love.

[@blakespower]

they are still here 4 years later!

[@maxglide]

A Canadian company called Mustgrow is in the final stages or testing a mustard seed based, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide that kills this fungus.Testing in Colombia now.

[@RedEyes_95]

11:44 she covered up them bananas reeeal fast LOL

[@BG-it7hb]

😂🤣😭

[@mark-ish]

Who wadda thunk Dr Aguilar would be more confronting to Yeung than the creepy chinese undercover cops when she did the Uighur documentary. Edit: maybe Yeung bats for the other team and was not appreciative of his analogy.

[@urbanhunter001]

😂😂😂 I thought the same thing!

[@sylvie7868]

"I am resistant to the cancer" "you are not resistant to the cancer" "we make the love and the son will no have the cancer"

[@lade7880]

gnilttbs it made sense to me

[@refineme]

Comment police... hold it right there.

[@tinamarie6076]

🤣

[@Sash248]

shooters gonna shoot

[@benjs8324]

love the pfp

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!..

[@nicolarollinson4381]

I never knew how many varieties of bananas there are until i went to Indonesia. There are several colours, sizes and flavours. Bananas sold in the UK rarely taste like banana any more.

[@dentonet2]

I'm fine with the brown-ish ones, as long as I know they are going to be tasty. Whose with me?!?

[@bobbyg2241]

Nahh i still love peaches

[@jazzcatt]

I'm fine with green, brown or yellow as long as the fruit inside is tasty, fresh, ripe and ready to eat, and not horribly bruised up and damaged. I love fried ripe plantain but I can seldom find ripe plantain. They are green and kind of chalky and tasteless.

[@scottmattern482]

@@jazzcatt

[@jazzcatt]

@@scottmattern482 Typical male. Phffft!

[@CineSoar]

I have to wonder if I'm the only one who saw the various 'superior' bananas, with 'inferior' looks and thought "Hipster Bananas".

[@Yshtola.]

damn I want those early 1900s nanners

[@christophermanabat1934]

My grandfather has a patch in his backyard in hawaii. It really is way better. Sweet like apple banana’s but a stronger, creamy taste.

[@blackbway]

they are still available, but a lot more expensive.

[@TUBESPECIFIC1]

Me too. They were far better quality and larger. None of us remember them, but you can see in the black and white picture t hey were superior in quality, size, and taste like said in the video. Profit always comes first before product quality and what is actually best for the, 'consumer.' The organic food industry targets those of us who want and need better than industrial mass produced, but prices are usually too high making it a deceptive tricky racket of nonsense. Nanners is cool name. Do Japanese call them nanners? South Korea just calls them banana same as in the US.

[@yohanesbobbysanjaya3541]

im from Indonesia and i live in urban area and yet i have this wild banana growing in my garden. the fruit is big, its around 60 cm long and its hard and inedible even when its ripe. but you could cook it (like steaming or deep frying) and oh boi the taste is insanely good, the taste is complex (but still majorly sweet) and it has fragrant smell, the texture depends on how you cook it tho. In Indonesia there lots of banana variety and they taste scrumptious, far beyond the plain sweet cavendish

[@Catherine-Breton]

thanks

[@adolfonthebeat1222]

Let’s all have a moment of silence for Donkey Kong, as he was watching this with me and had a heart attack.

[@anarchyamp]

😂

[@iiiishy]

lmfaoooo

[@vadamsable]

🤣🤣🤣

[@andreagonzalez-cx3fy]

I’m from Honduras and it really pissed me off when I learned the history of bananas and the way it is to this day exploited and suffering the effects of imperialism and colonialism

[@basicbot7349]

andrea gonzalez I also kinda disliked how he was stressing that the idea of banana as a fruit originated in that stupid hot house, like as if people weren’t eating bananas before that in south Asian and Latin America.

[@iancasey1486]

@andrea gonzalez The same can be said about the Caribbean. That's where England received the best bananas ever grown. These bananas were grown in the Caribbean islands of Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada. I think the brand was called Windward Islands Bananas.

[@andreagonzalez-cx3fy]

Ian Casey yeah I know many many countries are still suffering from colonialism and imperialism

[@Noor-jw2tn]

@Weißer Wolf don't be rediculous.

[@talisikid1618]

Weißer Wolf exactly! All Central America needs to free themselves from the past & end all cultural appropriation now!

[@UHaulShorts]

12:00 I'm wit him.