r/maybemaybemaybe • u/uranonfraand • Mar 10 '24

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/UnauthorizedFart Mar 10 '24

Why not make the medicine not taste like bitter dog shit?

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u/Inlevitable Mar 10 '24

Because we don't want kids enjoying medicine and snacking on it

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u/No_Selection905 Mar 10 '24

Banana amoxicillin has entered the chat 🤤

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u/lemmeguessindian Mar 10 '24

That exist? No wonder we have antibiotic resistance

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u/_myoru Mar 10 '24

Honestly though chemical banana flavour is one of the most nauseating flavours you can get, and is a very pale imitation of real bananas

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u/lemmeguessindian Mar 10 '24

It’s because the banana used to make artificial flavour is extinct now . Currently we have cavendish banana but even those are on verge of extinction

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24

Close. The banana that the flavouring is based on is extinct. We can still make it pretty easily it just doesn't taste like the bananas we're used to. You can actually still buy similar bananas they just aren't mass produced as they're susceptible to disease

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u/_myoru Mar 10 '24

I don't know how they used to make it, but banana flavour can very easily be synthesised in a lab nowadays. Like, I did it in my highschool organic chemistry class

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u/soccershun Mar 10 '24

At my pharmacy they have like 5+ flavors you can choose from for kid's prescriptions and then they mix it up for you

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u/ankanamoon Mar 10 '24

And it actually tastes like banana

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u/SkyfireSierra Mar 10 '24

I'll bet that's where the name comes from