For this context, what I'm saying is that if you don't need to extract an apple from a list of fruits, then you can do it safely with inheritance, so whether using inheritance or delegation is irrelevant. Isn't it?
If you want to extract an apple from a list of fruits, you need runtime type information (so that you can test whether a particular fruit object happens to be an apple), which has nothing to do with whether your language has inheritance or not. Using runtime type information is a symptom of bad design, though, since it lessens the extent to which you can reason about programs (as pieces of text) by just looking at their types.
