Cavendish Banana

Standard Cavendish, the full-size version of the world's most commercially important banana, rose to global dominance after the 1950s Panama disease outbreak devastated the previously standard Gros Michel variety — a shift so complete that most people alive today have never tasted the banana flavor that was actually standard before the 1950s, since Gros Michel and Cavendish are noted by those who remember both to taste noticeably different.