Bananas

The bananas you buy in supermarkets are known as the Cavendish variety. For commercialization standards this fruit last for more than 15 days after being picked before it starts to mature. The Cavendish is the only variety of export bananas in the whole world. In the 1800s exporters found one seemingly perfect variety: the Gros Michel. A delicious flavor and long shelf life this banana conquered the globe. But in the 1920s a disease struck the Gros Michel and within a few years, the world's banana crops were gone. So a new variety was developed to replace it: The Cavendish.