Oh I love that tio pepe pine nut roll! What dreams are made of... I have never heard of such a phenomenon! Is it like the cilantro situation too?

I thought it was worse than just being unable to eat pignolis themselves --- that sufferers found that eating too many imported Chinese pine nuts made *everything* taste metallic, for as long as two weeks at a time.

Are these raw or toasted pine nuts?

The line between a toasted pine nut and a burnt one is very thin in time but great in taste.

I ate my friend's very VERY delicious Orzo with Everything and loved it. So much that my husband made it and I ran out and purchased the pine nuts for it. It was great but ... three days later... everything from coffee, chocolate and wine tasted horrible. Since everything I ate couldn't have gone bad, I looked for an internet diagnosis. My choices were brain cancer or chinese pine nuts. I chose chinese pine nuts, and as described online, for three days it was acute and difficult to eat anything. Then it went away. But now, three months later, the metallic taste returns every now and then as a souvenir. Blecch.

This is happening to me, too, right now. Pine nuts from Trader Joe's. Glad to have found a reasonable explanation other than lead poisoning....

This happened to me too today. I thought everything had suddenly gone off in the fridge. Even after eating chocolate the bad taste returned!

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Marcus

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4 of the 5 of us in our family have had a mysterious bitter aftertaste in our mouth for about a week. We were starting to worry about lead, our well water supply, everything!
When I saw these internet posts, it makes sense now. I made pesto w/pine nuts last weekend. The only one unaffected in our family is my 11-yr-old, and she is the only one who didn't eat the pesto. Our pine nuts are labeled "Aurora Natural" - Stratford CT - " a product of China. I will contact them and will hope this isn't a result of some toxic pesticide ????

I'm suffering from this right now and it is pretty dreadful. The taste is overwhelming, I can't eat anything and it's getting worse rather than better. I'm only on day two. I have eaten pine nuts for over 30 years and this is a first. I will never eat pignoli from Asia again. Mine were from Costco.

My wife and I are experiencing this metallic taste right now. I thought it was bad water or maybe we are sick, but then I had some more pine nut and thought maybe they went bad. It's been three days now. We have never had problems with pine nuts in the past.

oh god,I can't stop laughing.what continent is Costco on.

Uh, Linda, I don't shop at Costco, but I'd like to make a bet that their pine nuts came from China.

I am having the same problem. Today is Tuesday, I ate pine nuts in a dip on Sunday and Monday and it started on Monday. I can't eat or drink anything, I am soo miserable! I work in a pre-school and am getting food gifts, have parties this week, I am going to miss out on it all! I won't eat them again! Got them in a prepared dip from Dierberg's in St. Charles, MO.

bought pine nuts from stratford conn. and used in chicken recipe...horrible metalllic taste when i eat anything at all. looked it up online and discovered so many people having the same problem.

spam at 3:08 - now they're not even trying to link anymore, they're just giving web addresses.

I started to have bitter aftertaste yesterday. At first I thought this was sardine fish poisoning (clupeotoxin). I now think it is from eating pinenuts also from Trader Joe's.
Quite a relief.

Well, now I have bitter mouth. I too thought I had some type of fish poisoning. I was adding them to my oatmeal in the morning for about 4 days. It started Thursday today is Saturday and ugh! These came form Trader Joe's packaged from Russia, Vietnam or Korea. I will be returning them for a refund. I remember as a child my mother would crack them and give them to me. The memory of those sweet little kernels are shot to hell! I think back then they were from the good ole U.S.A. New Mexico to be exact. I will be looking for them in N.M. Hope every one gets their appetites back soon.

Another for your list. Had a grilled salmon salad with pesto and a ton of pine nuts at a restaurant in Evanston, IL, on Friday, and finished the leftovers over the next day or two. Monday night everything started tasting horribly bitter, especially towards the back of my tongue. It's Wednesday now, and no change, so I googled my symptoms and found sites like this one. I called the restaurant to let them know they might have a bad batch of pine nuts, but they person I talked to didn't know where their pine nuts came from or what type they were. They were raw, not toasted, by the way. So far the only relief is to drink lots of water.

I knew it.

roaches, Cher, and food allergies. yes, LL, you knew it.

What I didn't know was that Ms. Vozzella had such remarkable karma. She's the one who instigated this post in the first place.

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

Hmmm, buy these at Costco and have never had this bitter aftertaste occur. I keep them refrigerated to prevent becoming rancid. Appreciate alert, however, and will give more attention to where they are from. you know about reading the bar code numbers to see the country of origin, right? if not, google it, as it's what we need to know when avoiding certain sources.

Hi Laura, have you written the article yet? I'm suffering from Pine Nut Mouth right now. I thought i was dying! I ate the nuts 4 days ago and the bitter chemical taste in my mouth is peaking today. I thought I was going crazy, I suspected the dishwasher, our washing up liquid, toothpaste, dental floss, it was really puzzling. I hope to find your article soon.
cheers
Wendy

I wrote the story back in October. Here's the link: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-10-07/news/0910050033_1_pine-nuts-pine-mouth-asian-pine. Hope your pine mouth clears up soon. LV

Yup, I am on day three and it was worse than yesterday. The weird thing is that I ate out of the same batch I had eaten out of before and not experienced it. And I always keep mine in the freezer to keep them fresh. I got them out of a bulk foods bin at my local grocery store and they were just labeled Chinese Pine Nuts. So sad...they are usually so good!

BINGO! We had some pine nuts from Trader Joe's last week and this week my wife cannot have coffee ( the same one I prepare every morning) because "it tastes too bitter". I have an aftertaste after everymeal. This was our only change in our regular diet, we always eat about the same things. Definitly,something it's going on....

i bought pine nuts from Trader Joe's last week--the package said they were from Korea or Russia.
i've had a bitter taste in my mouth since the day after i ate them.......just hoping i'm not ill from them. my stomach has been having problems with loose stool on and off since then.
i never had this problem when i used to buy they at Costco two years and more ago. now i can't find them in Whole Foods or Costco.....I was happy to see them in Trader Joe's but have changed my mind.

After doing an internet search, I now realize the cause of the overwhelming bitter taste in my mouth! Last week I prepared a pine nut and arugula salad with pine nuts from Trader Joes. I'm so relieved to know the cause; that the effect is temporary and not a serious medical condition. I've been eating pine nuts for years, and will now only buy nute from sources that I can trust. Really hope that Trader Joes will address this issue.

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