What are famous milestones in History involving fruits?

Question

For example the apple and Isaac Newton in discovering gravity.

Answer 1

Let me debunk the myth about Newton and the apple. People seem to think that Newton "discovered" gravity by observing an apple fall from a tree. That would mean that prior to Newton, no one in recorded history ever observed that things fall to the ground when you let go of them!

Newton did not discover gravity. People knew about gravity ever since the first caveman dropped a rock. Newton set forth a revolutionary theory that the force that makes the planets go round the sun and makes the moon go around the earth is in fact gravity.

This was a philosophical revolution: the heavens were regarded as quite a different realm from the earth, and the idea that the "divine" heavenly bodies were subject to the same law as "corrupted" earthly matter was a new idea. Furthermore, Newton's law of gravitation was quantitative. So, using mathematics, mere mortals could actually predict (and explain?) what was happening in the heavens. The human race would never regard the relationship between religion and science in the same way again.

The discovery was a result of his development of calculus, not a result of watching a falling apple.

Supposedly, someone once approached Sir Isaac late in life and asked him a naive question about how he "discovered" gravity. Newton was irked at the utter lack of understanding the question revealed and made the sarcastic remark, "I saw an apple fall from a tree."

Answer 2

Eve and the forbidden fruit.

Answer 3

the observation of navigators not becoming sick from scurvy after it was realized that those men ate oranges.