Apple Apples were a common fruit on Earth . The Fourth Doctor once claimed that he had hid up a tree and dropped apples on Isaac Newton ' s head . ( TV : " The Pirate Planet " ) Newton remained upset about that , as his nose bled for three days afterward . ( AUDIO : " Summer " ) The Fourth Doctor had an apple core in his pocket that was found by Kellman while searching the Doctor . ( TV : " Revenge of the Cybermen " ) Peri was eating an apple , which the Sixth Doctor took a bite out of before they flew near Halley ' s Comet . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " ) A pig ' s head with an apple in its mouth was one of the foods served to the sons of Grekk . ( PROSE : " The Sons of Grekk " ) While possessed by the Mara , Tegan dropped apples upon Aris in order to get his attention . ( TV : " Kinda " ) In the 12th century , while in the company of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest , the Twelfth Doctor ate an apple and conducted a scan on it with his sonic screwdriver , unconvinced about the reality of his surroundings . ( TV : " Robot of Sherwood " ) The Sixth Doctor carried an apple in his pockets . He gave it to Captain Emmanuel Swan , who was complaining about being hungry . ( AUDIO : " Doctor Who and the Pirates " ) While at Shangri - La , a young boy handed the Seventh Doctor an apple . Melanie Bush repeatedly prevented him from eating it . ( TV : " Delta and the Bannermen " ) Apples were served at King Gilgamesh ' s court in Uruk . ( PROSE : " " ) Whilst visiting the Worldsphere , the Seventh Doctor met a parachute that designed apple trees in its spare time . ( PROSE : " The Also People " ) Emptying his jacket pockets in 2006 London , the Ninth Doctor found an apple among other items . ( PROSE : " Winner Takes All " ) Following his regeneration , the Tenth Doctor found an apple in Howard ' s dressing gown , which Jackie had provided him with . Jackie claimed that this was because Howard " sometimes " got hungry in his sleep . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) Following his tenth regeneration , the Eleventh Doctor thought he wanted an apple but didn ' t like it . Amelia Pond disliked apples when she was young , until her mother began carving happy faces into them . She gave an apple with a carved happy face on it to the Doctor , who promised to keep it for later . After travelling forward twelve years , the Doctor proved his identity to now - grown Amy Pond by showing her the same apple , still fresh . ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " ) He later enjoyed an apple he found on a prison ship . ( TV : " The God Complex " ) Circa 2164 , David Campbell recovered a box of apples from a deserted store in London and brought the box back to the resistance HQ . Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman later ate some of the apples . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) In 2025 , apples were genetically modified to taste like other things to get children to eat them . Rose Tyler , while visiting a storybook - based theme park , took a bite of one that tasted like cheeseburger , only to spit it out in disgust . ( COMIC : " Down the Rabbit Hole " ) Apples from Eden were sold at Primo Temp . ( COMIC : " Buying Time " ) At some point in the far future the word " apple " was used in the prevailing calendar system , as the year 5000000000 was known to the locals as 5 . 5 / Apple / 26 . ( TV : " The End of the World " ) Further in the future , apple trees were extinct . In Hope on Endpoint , the Eighth Doctor paid for admittance to the Silver Palace with an apple core from his pockets ; this enabled Silver to clone it and grow apple trees hydroponically . ( PROSE : " Hope " ) Nardole used apples to trick Cybermen into thinking that they were grenade s . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " )