Songfacts®:

• Speaking with eMusic, Dave 'Avey Tare' Portner explained the meaning of this symbolic study of fruit and veg. "The simplistic nature of fruit was what I wanted the base the song off of," he said, "that fruit and vegetables are just something that you can just kinda eat, and they flavor themselves. It's so satisfying for me to grill vegetables for my girlfriend, because it always ends up being so good. But then it ended up turning into me thinking about myself and writing a bit more personally. I think having all these experiences in the past couple years — I've gotten out of relationships and friends have passed away, that kind of thing — I just connected [those things] somehow to fruit going away, too."
  
  It's hard for me," continued Avey Tare, "with lyrics, because I just want to have people take what they want from it, and not be so much me trying to shove something down your throat. The textures and melodies are just as important, if not more important."
• Josh "Deakin" Dibb told AUX Magazine about the writing of the song: "I think we literally, over the six weeks we were tracking it, stripped 'Applesauce' down to nothing and rebuilt it at least twice," he said. "We've never played the song live the way that it sounds. It was really like taking little bits and pieces of all these different things that we had tried and editing it to come up with a version that felt like the right thing to us."