TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks
TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks
The symptoms normally disappear after several days and there are no adverse health effects.
The cause of pine mouth has not been determined, but several researchers have indicated that a particular species and source of pine nut, Pinus armandii exported from the Shaanxi and Shanxi regions of China, may be responsible for causing the symptoms. This species of pine nut was previously only consumed locally and not widely exported for consumption as whole nuts.
I had this! It happened in maybe 2010 and there wasn't much information available online, but enough for me to figure that it was the pine nuts. It lasted for about five days and never happened again.
That must have been a little scary.
I've noticed an odd aftertaste from them, but nothing that lasted for days.
If I hadn't had found others saying it was the pine nuts then I'd be worried it was a brain tumour or something.
It was reported it could last weeks or months, so I was happy enough with only five days.
On a semi-related note, I barely remember what it was like to have strange health symptoms and not be able to get some possible causes right away.
Holy shit, I thought I had lost my mind when this happened to me
Do you get the same effect when eating pesto?
Pesto contains pine nuts.
Not sure if that helps or answers anything tho.
Edit: From a different comment here, they mentioned pine nuts being the cause for them. Seems very plausible then.
No idea, I don't eat pesto
This happened to my wife a couple years ago, really freaked her out. She loves food, so it depressed her for almost two weeks to not get to enjoy anything
Good thing pine nuts would kill me before the metallic taste hits