I was just now sitting here eating an apple with my son when a thought came to me.
In the Bible it states that Eve ate of the fruit - later on it was written in to be an apple.
So, what if apples were forbidden by the Church?
Or how about this, all fruit is considered sacred and not to be eaten?
Or, given the dietary restrictions already believed in by those of the Jewish faith I wonder if this could have started earlier and been carried over into the Christian faith.