She also gave some to her husband and he ate. The eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin cloths. Immediately they recognized that something had gone wrong. They felt vulnerable with each other and defensive toward God.
Common lore has it that the fruit the original couple ate was an apple.
The text says nothing about apples. The fruit was probably something native to the ancient Mesopotamian world, perhaps a pomegranate, date, or fig. They heard the sound of YHWH Elohim walking in the garden in the cool of the day. The man and his wife hid from YHWH Elohim among the trees of the garden. So I hid.