Circus peanuts have a distinct shape and name that is not at all linked to the flavor of the candy. Here's what they actually taste like and why.

Bananas have been a cornerstone of diets worldwide, yet their future hangs in the balance due to a fungal disease known as ...

In the 1950s, an outbreak of the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum wiped out an earlier variety of bananas, called Gros Michel. “The kind of banana we eat today is not the same as the one your ...

The disease was identified as Fusarium Wilt of Banana, or FWB, caused by a fungal pathogen that kills a plant by obstructing water and mineral transportation. "So the Gros Michel banana tasted ...

Our standard supermarket banana, a variety called Cavendish, may be at the brink of disaster. Chosen for its resistance to a fungal pathogen that wiped out its predecessor, the Gros Michel banana, the ...

The artificial banana flavour, the kind you could get in those foam banana sweets of your childhood, doesn't taste like real ...

According to Darragh, this variety arrived in the UK in the 1950s, replacing the Gros Michel variety which was decimated by a fungal disease known as Fusarium wilt of banana, or FWB. As these ...