Some of our favorite foods could wind up on the endangered list.

Did you know some of our favorite foods are actually at risk of becoming extinct someday? 

Because of changing eating habits, viral diseases and global weather patterns, some crops could become endangered or disappear in a matter of decades:

• Maple syrup: Production is declining due to lower levels of rain acidity, extreme weather conditions, and pest infestations.

• Chocolate: Changing temperature and rainfall patterns are hindering suitable growth conditions for cocoa. 

• Honey: Without honeybees, there would be no honey. Over the last several years, more than one-third of honeybee colonies in the United States have been wiped out from a disease called Colony Collapse Disorder. If honeybees ever disappear, countless varieties of plants and crops that depend on them will be doomed as well.

• Bananas: The devastating Panama disease is threatening the whole world now. It already wiped out popular banana crops in Latin America the 1950s. Now it’s jumped continents and is threatening plantations in the Amazon, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.