Shiny apples don’t just fool princesses. The evil queen in Snow White may not have actually meant to poison the princess. It could have just been the sneaky toxins hiding on the fruit, and the queen was simply worried Snow White hadn’t been eating enough. Whether or not that’s the case, the princess fell ill, and the apple was the cause.

Poisoned fruit doesn’t make much of an appearance in modern literature anymore, but it makes an appearance every day in the modern life. In the sack lunches, your kids set off to school with, in the pies you make for parties, in the healthy snack you pick up instead of a bag of potato chips. Nestled cozily between the wax coating put on many fruits and vegetables and the natural skin of the produce, pesticides and chemicals lurk, safely encased by wax.