Comments on: Bitter taste after eating for days – caused by pine nuts?

By: Vicky

Vicky — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:44:37 +0000

I can’t believe I found this out about pine nuts! I am Lebanese and we eat pine nuts in so many of our recipes. I had a sandwhich with pesto a few days ago then ate a handful of pine nuts from my freezer last night. I had the crazy metallic taste in my mouth since I woke up today. I was freaking out until I found this website. I don’t think I’m going to eat pine nuts anymore no matter how much I love them. This is unpleasant and gross.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:32:08 +0000

Thanks for all the postings, they were a source of relief for me. I was wondering what happened to my taster. Like most I had eaten pine nuts, mine came from Trader Joes, they were roasted, packaged in the U.S. but imported from either Russia or Korea. (Who knows where they were grown). Like other reports I seem to be the only one effected, my wife ate the same pine nuts without a reaction. Fortunately my symptoms do not seem as severe as others have reported. I just have a bitter, metallic like taste in the back of my mouth but I can still eat without problems.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:35:50 +0000

Hi there, THANK GOODNESS for your post. My brother and I have been wondering for a couple of days what was wrong with us – no matter how we tried we couldn’t get rid of the bile-taste. Now I know not to worry.

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:29:10 +0000

Wow–in reading all of these posts, it looks like this problem has maybe increased in the last few weeks?? I googled it today after eating a dish I made with pine nuts yesterday. Got them at Whole Foods Saturday in the bulk bin and am pretty sure they were from China. Would love to know if there is a pesticide issue or if it is truly just a ‘bad’ nut in the bunch. Yuck. I am not physically sick, but everything I eat tastes bad.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:12:43 +0000

@Cindy
Cindy,
I feel for you! It was awful. Mine lasted 12 days. I posted this info on Jan. 13th. If you want to go back to the comments click on the comment pages below to get back to Jan. 13th, 2010 or any previous comments:

January 13th, 2010 at 17:01 | #30 Reply | Quote Jane, and all the others – I wanted to give you an update. When you’re going through this it is awful!! It took 12 days for my bitter taste to go away.. I did not notice a bad smell from my urine but I am sure that is possible. I did get an awful headache and upset stomach almost every day. I did have some diarrhea but may have been caused by all the detoxing I was trying to do. It was not fun and I’m not sure I can eat pine nuts again. Angie, I live in Southerna California but it you read all the posts it’s happening all over the world. I reported to the FDA in Ca. but they did not make it a big deal and because it’s not happening to everyone they said they would not take it off the market!! If you have the pine nuts with the original package they want them. The guy at FDA scared me when he said it could last up to 6 months. I think the average is about 2 weeks.. My pine nuts were roasted so the theory that they are raw goes out the window. It’s happening with both raw and roasted.

Ok I know most of you want to know what helped to I will get to that:
I consulted with my health care practitioner and this is what she had me do – I don’t know if this was the cure or if it went away on it’s own:

1. Liquid Chlorophyll (twice a day)
2. I took Thorne Bio-Gest probiotics – 2 tablets on emty stomach in the morning, and one with every meal and then one before bed
3. I also took my Green drink – Green Vibrance – I just did this because I thought it would help to detox.
4. I did not do the Charcol like some people did but my health food person said that that would be good but can sometimes cause constipation.
5. I did drink Green Tea – but it’s was difficult because most tea’s tasted awful to me.

Ok things that I could not stomach:

1. Sugar
2. Bread
3. Fruit
4. Orange juice
(Well mostly everything made me sick.. as long as I was not eating I felt fine but we all have to eat.. so that’s not an option)

This helped me a lot after I ate someting:

1. Wrigley’s Extra Long lasting Flavor Spearmint Gum
2. Did ok with some protein (lunch meat not so good) regular chicken not too bad

Let me know if it helps any of you.
Well I hope this helps you all out there.. I feel for you because it’s awful when you’re going through it.
Please for all of you that are going through this and then it ends please update the blog so that others know what to do, what helps and when it ends.
All my best to you!

By: David M

David M — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:54:12 +0000

By the way, i made pesto with toasted pine nuts and had no problems. Over the next couple of days, I ate raw pine nuts and sure enough, the hair spray flavor arrived today! I thought Starbucks was trying to poison me. The taste only arrives after I eat and then goes away after about 15-30 minutes. Thanks to this website, my wife doesn’t think I am crazy anymore!

By: David M

David M — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:42:14 +0000

Add me to the list. Batch of Organic 365 from Whole Foods. Product of Good Ol’ China…batch lot code 10011.

By: Jessica Yarr

Jessica Yarr — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:47:00 +0000

This is soo funny! I was on the phone with a nurse describing my symptoms and she told me to go to the emergency room because she though I may have been exposed to a poison. Just when I was about to go my Dad called me and said he read this, and figured since I am a chef this may apply. Sure enough yesterday morning I made some pine nut brittle with some smaller pine nuts that were not from my regular provider. I have never had this happen before, but it does make perfect sense. I was so worried..feeew! Its to bad though i love pine nuts. I guess i’ll just stay away from the small ones for now on. This the a horrible problem for a chef!

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:41:50 +0000

Wow….the wonders of Google!

I, like most of the other people on here, wondered what on earth was wrong? Pregnant….Im 50. peptic ulcer?…no other signs and then ..thank goodness “pine mouth!” It all ties in, new packet from Asda on Monday, mixed with usual seeds & raisins in my breakfast for the last 5 days! Hope it goes soon …this is torture, hope more research will soon be done

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:59:18 +0000

Thank you so much for this blog post. I was super confused before I read it and now it makes perfect sense.

For those also afflicted, I found that pickles and Pepsi still tasted alright while everything else that I’ve eaten tastes awful.