Most candy flavors don’t taste much like their fruit counterpart. IDK why banana is single out most often.
Because the artificial banana taste is based on a kind of banana that doesn’t exist anymore, so its very inaccurate compared to the taste of actual bananas that people know

That’s a myth.

youtu.be/I9ZtvpBoXzI

I Ate the Extinct Banana (so you don't have to)

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Did you somehow not see the many comments here proving that’s not true? It’s been widely reported as being false for years.