I am so relieved to know that I am not losing my mind! Yesterday, I started noticing the nauseating bitter taste that so many of you have described. It got worse as the day went on, and was set off by everything I put in my mouth. I did an internet search to try to find out what dread disease I was developing, and stumbled upon this post. What a relief! I ate two handfuls of raw pinenuts on Monday. It's been years since I've eaten them, and I never would have made the connection if it hadn't been for this forum. I bought the pine nuts from an HEB in Houston (I saw that another member also purchased her's from HEB in Houston). These are a "Product of Siberia" and are distributed by Valued Naturals in Dover, NJ. I will be contacting HEB and Valued Naturals, as well as the FDA. I'm seriously considering contacting our local news stations, as well. People have GOT to be made aware of this! Pine nuts are officially off of my diet forever. This is such a gross taste!! YUCK! Still searching for a cure. Peppermints didn't work (that was the latest I tried).
Wow! Add another anecdotal correlation to pine nuts. I eat pine nuts, but haven't in recent memory - until last week!! A few days ago I noticed the bitter taste in my mouth - have been searching, acid reflux, sinuses, teeth - none of it really applied. But this, this could be it. I can't believe it. Thank god it goes away. But what is it from?
Thank you for these posts. I have had this bitter aftertaste in my mouth for the last few days and finally was fed up enough to google it. Then I say "Pinenuts" and it clicked. There has been an open bag of pinenuts on our kitchen counter for the past week and every time I enter the kitchen I have eaten a handful. Serously - more pine nuts than I have ever had before. It makes total sense. Is this the result of bad pinenuts or do all pinenuts have this effect is you eat enough of them?
well what do ya know.....i've got that bad taste also. i've eaten lots of pine nuts over the years....also lived in italy and ate lot of pesto and never had this problem. i made a stirfry the other day and added a handful of pine nuts, that had been in the cupboard for a few weeks in an opened packet...from tesco's from china..2 days later after breakfast i had this awful taste in my mouth...i thought i must have eaten some soap or something. well i'm happy to find this site and now know it is nothing too serious. DOWN WITH PINE NUTS!!!!
My god.
I thought i was the only one. I thought i had food poisoning or was getting ill! I had pine nuts two days ago and since then this disgusting flavor has bee in my mouth!-And i had alot of these nuts. I got really worried..so i rang my mum today to tell her and she said go check on the internet....Pine NUTS? out of all things. That's crazy...i had some last week which were fresh from Saudi Arabia and i had no such reaction?
I thought i was the only one. I thought i had food poisoning or was getting ill! I had pine nuts two days ago and since then this disgusting flavor has bee in my mouth!-And i had alot of these nuts. I got really worried..so i rang my mum today to tell her and she said go check on the internet....Pine NUTS? out of all things. That's crazy...i had some last week which were fresh from Saudi Arabia and i had no such reaction?
I made a meal a week ago that called for pine nuts which I purchased from TJ's and added the recommended amount. Since then I have taken several helpings from the bag as I pass through the kitchen. Yesterday I ate breakfast, grapefruit and an orange and the taste was horrible. Followed by a bad tasting lunch and more this morning. Even a beer last night tasted bad. I googled and came to this site. I am not losing my sense of taste and I will not eat pine nuts again. What a relief.
I had the same bitter taste for the last 4 four days.
Now I recall that 5 days ago I ate some pine nuts and they are from China as well packed from a local importer.(I'm in Athens, Greece).
The funiest thing is that while googling for my bitter taste issue, I was eating pine nuts for a quick snack. Now I can only look at them.
Now I recall that 5 days ago I ate some pine nuts and they are from China as well packed from a local importer.(I'm in Athens, Greece).
The funiest thing is that while googling for my bitter taste issue, I was eating pine nuts for a quick snack. Now I can only look at them.
I have been eating pine nuts my whole life in Spain and have never experienced any bitter taste ... until I moved to Finland, it has happened to me twice this year, the first time I did not know the reason, but thanks to this forum I believe that was because of eating pine nuts.
I have to go to the store and check if the pine nuts we have here are from China or not. Anyone else from Finland with this problem?
thanks!
I have to go to the store and check if the pine nuts we have here are from China or not. Anyone else from Finland with this problem?
thanks!
I am experiencing the same thing. Ate some pine nuts last Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday morning my tea tasted terrible and then everything after that. I took 300mg Alpha Lipoic Saturday with dinner and the after dinner snack I had a few hours later did not taste terrible. Breakfast on Sunday tasted bitter, but less so so I took another 300 mg and lunch and dinner yesterday were fine. Alpha Lipoic is an antioxidant, it seems to be doing something. Try it if you're experiencing this, it may help!
Me and my husband had the same for four days. Ate pine nuts that were produced in China and bought in very expensive supermarket in London.
We opened the packet,expiry date in April, and ate them straight away.( not the whole thing in one go, about 75 gr between two of us).
26-28 hours later the bitterness began. Still have it, green tea helps to wash away the taste as from yesterday. Before that did not help.
I have been having pine nuts my whole life and know all about them. These ones were not rancid. They have pleasant smell and taste. I still have the packet with few left...
We opened the packet,expiry date in April, and ate them straight away.( not the whole thing in one go, about 75 gr between two of us).
26-28 hours later the bitterness began. Still have it, green tea helps to wash away the taste as from yesterday. Before that did not help.
I have been having pine nuts my whole life and know all about them. These ones were not rancid. They have pleasant smell and taste. I still have the packet with few left...
Hi, look up Pine nuts on Wiki and it talks of the bitter taste somehow related to the triglycerides and mainly in nuts from China but with no apparent health risk
I just want to add my voice to the few hundred that have already related their experiences. I too am a 'pine nut victim'! I had no idea what it was until finding this website - thank goodness for this forum.
I visited my doctor after 4 days of taste misery and he had no idea what might be causing the bad taste sensations. When it first happened, I thought I must have inadvertently eaten a poison of some kind (in my food) as the taste was so bizarre and pronounced. I had snacked on pine nuts for about 4 days, consuming around half a small packet (raw). These were from Morrisons, with no indication of country of origin. Its clear from these posts, however, that the offending nuts are sold in many different shops - it's the original source that's the problem. I just cannot imagine what sort of substance has such a lasting effect on the tongue. Now 5 days in and perhaps seeing a slight improvement, but not much.
Could I suggest that if you have the time and are truly concerned (as I am) that you take steps to report it to someone? I have emailed the Food Standards Agency, and will return a sample of nuts to Morrisons with the original bag and a complaint. I've also told my doctor this story for future reference.
Someone at Trading Standards suggested it might be an allergy and not rancid pine nuts, but that would mean that a whole bunch of people have suddenly and without warning developed a pine nut allergy from around the beginning of 2007, if these posts are to be believed! Plus, my reading suggests a pine nut allergy leads to severe and immediate anaphylaxis, not a weird prolonged bad taste.
Look up pine nuts on wikipedia, as a paragraph there explains a little about possible side effects.
It's only if enough of us make some noise that anyone will sit up and listen, because I don't like to think I am trusting food sources that are simply not up to scratch. This whole experience has been truly miserable, and I hope I see big improvements soon! :-(
Good luck to all other sufferers, and spread the word!
I visited my doctor after 4 days of taste misery and he had no idea what might be causing the bad taste sensations. When it first happened, I thought I must have inadvertently eaten a poison of some kind (in my food) as the taste was so bizarre and pronounced. I had snacked on pine nuts for about 4 days, consuming around half a small packet (raw). These were from Morrisons, with no indication of country of origin. Its clear from these posts, however, that the offending nuts are sold in many different shops - it's the original source that's the problem. I just cannot imagine what sort of substance has such a lasting effect on the tongue. Now 5 days in and perhaps seeing a slight improvement, but not much.
Could I suggest that if you have the time and are truly concerned (as I am) that you take steps to report it to someone? I have emailed the Food Standards Agency, and will return a sample of nuts to Morrisons with the original bag and a complaint. I've also told my doctor this story for future reference.
Someone at Trading Standards suggested it might be an allergy and not rancid pine nuts, but that would mean that a whole bunch of people have suddenly and without warning developed a pine nut allergy from around the beginning of 2007, if these posts are to be believed! Plus, my reading suggests a pine nut allergy leads to severe and immediate anaphylaxis, not a weird prolonged bad taste.
Look up pine nuts on wikipedia, as a paragraph there explains a little about possible side effects.
It's only if enough of us make some noise that anyone will sit up and listen, because I don't like to think I am trusting food sources that are simply not up to scratch. This whole experience has been truly miserable, and I hope I see big improvements soon! :-(
Good luck to all other sufferers, and spread the word!
After years of eating pine nuts with no problem, I bought some in Marks & Spencer (in Scotland) this week and ate them a couple of days ago. I am currently experiencing this very unpleasant taste disturbance and am very glad I found this information as I thought it might be something serious. I checked the bag and found that the pine nuts were imported from China - they are also smaller than normal. One strange thing is that my husband consumed the same ones with no problems!
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