   forbidden fruit is a phrase that originates from genesis concerning adam and eve in . in the narrative, the fruit of good and evil was eaten by adam and eve in the garden of eden. as a metaphor, the phrase typically refers to any indulgence or pleasure that is considered illegal or immoral. ==identifying the fruit== potential forbidden fruits of the garden of eden include the apple, pomegranate, the fig,the fig: its history, culture, and curing, gustavus a. eisen, washington, govt. print. off., 1901 the carob, the etrog or citron, the pear, mushrooms, the quince and, more recently, the datura. the pseudepigraphic book of enoch describes the tree of knowledge: "it was like a species of the tamarind tree, bearing fruit which resembled grapes extremely fine; and its fragrance extended to a considerable distance. i exclaimed, how beautiful is this tree, and how delightful is its appearance!" (1 enoch 31:4). one alternative view is that the forbidden fruit is not a fruit at all, but a metaphorical one, possibly the fruit of the womb, i.e. sex and procreation from the tree of life. the american ethnobotanist and philosopher terence mckenna speculated that the fruit of the tree is a symbolic allegory for the entheogenic mushroom psilocybe cubensis, and that the expansion of perceptual and cognitive awareness that resulted from ingestion was responsible for the acquisition of "knowledge". ===apple=== in western europe, the fruit was often depicted as an apple, possibly because of a misunderstanding of, or a pun on mÄlum, a native latin noun which means evil (from the adjective malus), and mÄlum, another latin noun, borrowed from greek Î¼á¿Î»Î¿Î½, which means apple. in the vulgate, genesis 2:17 describes the tree as de ligno autem scientiae boni et mali: "but of the tree (lit. wood) of knowledge of good and evil" (mali here is the genitive of malum). the larynx in the human throat, noticeably more prominent in males, was consequently called an adam's apple, from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit sticking from adam's throat as he swallowed. ===grape=== rabbi meir says that the fruit was 
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