Of the things available to most of us, what are common and the oldest things we might find on a store shelf?
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Apples?
Approximately 750,000 years ago: early Paleolithic food gatherers in (modern) Kazakhstan, central Asia, discovered sour crab apples growing wild in the forest.
All the fruits could count, and the ones native to east Africa will go all the way back to pre-human apes, but the modern grocery store cultivars are all very selectively bred, and don’t much resemble their wild precursors.
