Cardboard box filled with mixed fresh fruit including red Gala apples and yellow-green Williams pears on a wooden surface.

Apples have been grown for hundreds, if not thousands of years, and have long been valued as a source of nutrition and vitamins in winter. These days we can eat apples all year due to storage in coolstores using modern technology…but how were apples stored before the advent of electricity and refrigeration.

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