Stay away from Chinese Pine Nuts

[Maverick1876]

After two days of a horrible bitter taste in my mouth where everything taste bitter, I finally decided to google "everything taste bitter" and found to my delight that the problem is most likely a reaction to pine nuts --- either good ones where the oil in them went rancid or more likely, a variety from China that shouldn't be eaten or sold. But,:frown: like Chinese drywall, they get though.

I ate two handfulls of pine nuts at a 4th of July party. The symptoms showed up the day after and are expected to last 1 - 4 weeks! OMG the thought of a shrimp poorboy tasting like a $hit sandwich makes me want to go on a diet till my taste buds return to normal.

[Dr.K]

interesting....I hope that never happens to me, but then again, I do need to go on a diet..LOL

[teknickcull]

yes i've heard of this! a friend of mine got really sick from chinese pine nuts - i thought he was crazy!

[britain]

Experienced this when making Pesto, I ate a couple of handfuls of the pinenuts. After the third day I was thinking it might be serious like a tumor or something. Then I ran the same Google search and discovered "Pinemouth". Bad thing was the next day I prepared a great dinner of Grilled Tuna Steaks and Pesto but couldn't enjoy it, it tasted like aluminum. The biiter taste finally subsided after about 5 days.