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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Artificial Banana Flavor

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In the Watermelon episode, Chuck and Josh stumbled into a bit of little-known history about why artificial banana flavor doesn’t taste like bananas. Turns out it does; it just tastes like a banana you’ve probably never eaten.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:34.4

Hey and welcome to this short stuff.

0:35.8

I'm Josh, there's Chuck, we're the banana splits.

0:39.4

And this is short stuff.

0:41.2

Let's go.

0:42.5

I thought you were going to say we're bananas for banana flavoring.

0:46.0

I should have.

0:47.2

I think we should retake this whole thing, frankly.

0:49.6

Yeah, yours is better.

0:51.0

No, no way, not by a million years.

0:54.1

Yours was better than mine.

0:56.8

This is a good episode.

0:58.6

Hats off to you for putting it together.

1:00.6

Thank you, but the hats really come off to a few, a handful of astute listeners, Chuck,

1:07.5

because I had no idea about this until in our watermelon episode.

1:12.2

If you'll remember, you started talking about how just far off like banana candy flavor

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