Apple have been a mainstay of human civilization and gastronomy for thousands of years; along the way, they have accumulated fairly many legends and misunderstandings. We shall eliminate the layers of deception in this book to reveal the basic facts about this dear fruit. Get ready to have your mind blown as we debunk some of the most common apple myths and reveal the juicy truths that will change your view on this common fruit.
1.Apples are forbidden fruits
Among the many Apple mythologies is one that holds they were the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Popular culture, literature, and art have served for millennia to support this distorted view. Actually, though, the reality is considerably different from what most people believe. The Bible does not really say the type of fruit Adam and Eve ate. The idea of the apple as the forbidden fruit most probably began in the Renaissance when artists started depicting the fruit in the Garden of Eden as such. This creative choice may have sprung from the Latin word for evil, “malum,” which is like “mālum,” the word for apple. Apart from that, apples were a convenient choice for representation since European artists could readily obtain them and knew them. Some scholars believe that if the forbidden fruit were discovered, it would have been a fig, pomegranate, or maybe a grape based on their prevalence in the Middle East during Biblical times. The association of the apple with sin and temptation is a very new phenomena in human history and lacks basis in the original Biblical scripture. This misidentification has changed our perspective of apples; usually connecting them with temptation or forbidden knowledge, we see them as just nutritious and delicious fruits with no intrinsic moral value when in fact they are just such.