Originally Posted by Gabe15

I agree with you that preserving genetic diversity is important and breeding bananas is relatively difficult (compared to something like maize or tomatoes), but FHIA is far from the only organization that has been breeding bananas, and in recent years, they are one of the most secretive with what they are doing. Here is a nice article summarizing the history and main contributors to banana breeding.
Who's breeding bananas? : Under the peel | News, knowledge and information on bananas



I tasted many of them and more not pictured, some cooked, some raw, some both. The tastes and eating quality attributes are all over the board and as variable as the plants themselves. Some are indeed very Plantain-like, but they are so variable you can't really say anything collective about them all.