[knice]

I once had a job making ice cream and it bothered me that I had to add yellow food coloring to the banana ice cream. We used real bananas and didn't add banana flavor. But I was told to add yellow color anyway.

[compiler-guy]

There is an old cooking adage that, "You eat with your eyes first."

Making food aesthetically pleasing does add flavor to that first sample.

[jimmaswell]

I saw something about a restaurant where the food is served in the dark a while ago, so that this can't happen.

[nocman]

Wow, I'm not sure I'd want to eat in a restaurant that purposefully prevented me from seeing what I was eating!

xD

[FreeFull]

Thinking about it, it's weird that people expect the ice cream to be yellow anyway, since I can't say I've ever seen a banana with yellow flesh.

[jacobolus]

Here are the bananas that were used when all of these recipes were originally written: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/images/may/musa/TARS17155-fruit...

Banana flavoring is also based on the flavor of Gros Michel bananas, which is why it doesn’t taste like the Cavendish bananas commonly available today.

If you want to see a very yellow inside of a banana, get a very ripe plantain (completely black peel) and fry slices.