The other day I felt like food I was eating had a weird bitter/metallic aftertaste. I don't remember what I was eating when I noticed it for the first time, but it was BIZARRE! I let it go for a couple of days and just thought maybe something was up with a filling I have. Yesterday I finally Googled (yes, I know it's dangerous to google symptoms, strange things come up), bitter taste in mouth and yep weird things came up, but I wanted to figure out if I needed to call a doc or dentist. I don't want to be passing anything strange through the breastmilk people.... So I click on Pinch My Salt because it mentioned pine nuts, and I thought "Hmmmm, just had pasta with pine nuts last week...?"
Apparently if you are lucky enough to get a bad pine nut or a few, you can get a taste disturbance called pine mouth. Even Wikipedia has a section under pine nuts about it:
Risks of eating pine nuts (who knew...)
A small minority of pine nuts cultivated in China can cause taste disturbances, lasting between few days to maximal a week after consumption. A bitter, metallic taste is described. Though unpleasant, there are no lasting effects. This phenomenon was first described in a scientific paper in 2001.[11] Some publications have made reference to this phenomenon as "pine mouth".[12] The Nestle Research Centre has hypothesized that a particular species of Chinese pine nuts, Pinus armandii, is the cause of the problem. The suspect species of pine nuts are smaller, duller, and more rounded than typical pine nuts.[13] This finding has recently been confirmed.[14] In 1998 the FAO published a list of edible tree nuts, containing 29 species of pine nuts that are regularly consumed somewhere in the world[15] and the aforementioned Chinese pine species were not included. Metallic taste disturbance, known as metallogeusia, is typically reported 1–3 days after ingestion, being worse on day 2 and lasting typically up to 2 weeks. Cases are self-limited and resolve without treatment[16] Möller[17] has postulated an hypothesis that could explain why the bitter taste appears several days after ingestion and lasts for as long. A well known physiological process known as enterohepatic recirculation (EHR) could play a key role in the development of PNS.
The FDA is currently investigating “Pine Mouth”.
So I have now idea, if I can ever eat pine nuts again...I mean I guess I technically can because it's not harmful to me, but ewwww who wants this taste in their mouth after EVERYTHING they eat?!?! Another strange thing: Jeremy doesn't have it, and he ate the same pine nuts...I wonder if it not only has to do with "bad" pine nuts but with certain people's body chemistry...??? Anyways, I have about four days left to hit a week and half which seems to be the typical time people report no longer having the bitter after taste; some people seem to think the 1-2 week time period goes with how long a tastebud lasts, and it simply affects your tastebuds in that only bitter tastes are sensed....Should go away when the tastebuds "die" and new ones come in. I am thankful it's not as bad as other cases that everything they eat tastes bitter while eating. My issue is strictly after taste. Blahhhhh!
Apparently if you are lucky enough to get a bad pine nut or a few, you can get a taste disturbance called pine mouth. Even Wikipedia has a section under pine nuts about it:
Risks of eating pine nuts (who knew...)
A small minority of pine nuts cultivated in China can cause taste disturbances, lasting between few days to maximal a week after consumption. A bitter, metallic taste is described. Though unpleasant, there are no lasting effects. This phenomenon was first described in a scientific paper in 2001.[11] Some publications have made reference to this phenomenon as "pine mouth".[12] The Nestle Research Centre has hypothesized that a particular species of Chinese pine nuts, Pinus armandii, is the cause of the problem. The suspect species of pine nuts are smaller, duller, and more rounded than typical pine nuts.[13] This finding has recently been confirmed.[14] In 1998 the FAO published a list of edible tree nuts, containing 29 species of pine nuts that are regularly consumed somewhere in the world[15] and the aforementioned Chinese pine species were not included. Metallic taste disturbance, known as metallogeusia, is typically reported 1–3 days after ingestion, being worse on day 2 and lasting typically up to 2 weeks. Cases are self-limited and resolve without treatment[16] Möller[17] has postulated an hypothesis that could explain why the bitter taste appears several days after ingestion and lasts for as long. A well known physiological process known as enterohepatic recirculation (EHR) could play a key role in the development of PNS.
The FDA is currently investigating “Pine Mouth”.
So I have now idea, if I can ever eat pine nuts again...I mean I guess I technically can because it's not harmful to me, but ewwww who wants this taste in their mouth after EVERYTHING they eat?!?! Another strange thing: Jeremy doesn't have it, and he ate the same pine nuts...I wonder if it not only has to do with "bad" pine nuts but with certain people's body chemistry...??? Anyways, I have about four days left to hit a week and half which seems to be the typical time people report no longer having the bitter after taste; some people seem to think the 1-2 week time period goes with how long a tastebud lasts, and it simply affects your tastebuds in that only bitter tastes are sensed....Should go away when the tastebuds "die" and new ones come in. I am thankful it's not as bad as other cases that everything they eat tastes bitter while eating. My issue is strictly after taste. Blahhhhh!
