The WHO did a meta analysis, which is how they came to their conclusion.
The title "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health" is slightly misleading though, since they focused on typical alcoholic beverages. There is no statement about alcohol in fruits.
Bottom line:Drinking even a little bit of
<alcoholic beverage>
safe? Likely no.Eating<fruit that contain low amounts of alcohol>
: unknown
Thank you for your point of view. Since I have shared the article a lot of tibes myself, it's nice to take another perspective on it.
I haven't dived very deep into the research, but from what I have gathered the research did focus on beverages. Whether the alcohol content of a alcohol-free beer also falls into this category and therefore alcohol content in apples must be considered as well, was not conclusive to me. Sure, if fruits reach alcohol levels of average alcoholic beverages I suppose it's safe to label them as problematic as well. But until then I'd like to avoid reading too much into the research, until it has been clarified whether this really does apply to alcohol levels like in fruits as well.