NO, WE HAVE NO BANANAS (OR SHOULD THAT BE YES?)

See my banana on the left? It's the same as my banana on the right.
If you've got a banana, my bananas are related to them. In fact, all bananas are the same. All brothers, or sisters if you like.
Except they're not either.
Bananas are sexless plants, and you can only get another one by cultivating a stem of a plant already in existence. Which is fine in some ways. It makes 90 million tons of similar tasting, similar sized fruit every year for the world to munch through, giving us potassium, thick smoothies, cakes - as well as giving some of the worlds poorest economies a living.
Some republics were indeed built on bananas. And quite right too.
Only trouble is, the banana, the Cavendish banana to be precise, is unwell.
A fungi is attacking it, and only unsustainable amounts of chemicals are keeping it going. Prices are going up, harvests are coming down.
50 years ago there wasn't a Cavendish in sight. We ate Gros Michel bananas, but a fungus took them the same way. So, you may think, time to look for a new breed of banana... except there aren't any.
There might have been somewhere, but most scientists fear that most have been chopped down in deforestation projects around the world.
So the Cavendish is living on borrowed time, and so, sadly are the people that work on the banana plantations around the world.
Bananas are Britain's most popular fruit - with 95% of households buying them every week. Including E.R., who enjoys them sliced up on a bit of yoghurt.
So enjoy the taste of these little yellow clones next time you have one.
It may just be your last.