Pine Mouth

Pete M.

Had some home made pizza for lunch today and it tasted really bitter.
Then had pasta for dinner and that was bitter too.
So had a look online to see what this may be, knowing that it can be a symtom of jaundice and diabetes amongst other things and came upon this:

http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2009/jul/pinenut

I had a salad with loads of pine nuts yesterday, love them, roasted, hmmm, but if they're going to do this to me

Anyone else experience similar?
Wife had the same as me, but no effect with her at all.

Sunspot

Yes, I had the same issues a few month back. I had the bitter taste for over a week after eating pine nuts. It was awful!

CuLT

*bump* this would appear to be an ongoing (and relatively recent, according to wikipedia) thing.

I think I'm afflicted by this at the moment; added a load of pine nuts to a yoghurt on Saturday, by Sunday evening everything I ate tasted noticeably bitter/metallic.

Thought it might have been something serious, didn't even consider the pine nuts (first time I've had them in a year or so), did a bit of Googling and came up with a few interesting articles.

Currently on day two of this and from what I'm reading, can expect it to last anything up to a month If anyone else comes across this, Supervalu "Goodness" pine nuts were what I had. Made in China according to packet, so seems to fit.

lubie76

Gosh, thats kinda weird. Wasn't there something lately about a scarcity of pinenuts or something in the last few months. I know my local supermarket almost doubled the price of them earlier in the year.