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More than just a fruit, an apple was used to signify sweetness.. a very desirable thing-- since humans are born with a taste for sweetness.
in the days before cheap sugar, apples represented sweetness,-- and sweetness was the essense of desire...
see The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World" Michael Pollen, (pub. by Random house.) for essay on the subject.
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