Comments on: Pine Mouth and Me

By: mike

mike — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:27:02 +0000

Brush with baking soda.
It has almost removed the bitter metal taste after 5 days of Chinese junk pine nuts doing their thing.

By: Marjory Kaplan

Marjory Kaplan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:00:29 +0000

On Sunday I opened an older bag of pine nuts from Trader Joe’s and ate a small handful. Two days later, I drank some red wine that tasted like vinegar. Assuming it was spoiled,I opened a second bottle which was just as bad. Now it’s day 4 and it’s a little better but still not back to normal. I’m now a member of the never-eat-pine-nuts-again club. Thank goodness for google and for your blog.

By: Lyndsay from Scotland

Lyndsay from Scotland — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:57:05 +0000

ARGH! On day 2 of pine mouth. I live in the UK and had never heard of this before. Bought a pack of pine nuts and sunflower seeds, and have been eating them raw. Not sure which country they came from as the packet says “sourced from more than one country”. I’m never eating a pine nut again and I’m off to suck some lemons!

By: eugene forsyth

eugene forsyth — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:03:11 +0000

I now have PM since Sat., June 5th, after having some Pine Nuts at MOMA’s Cafe, in their salad. I have informed them and the NYC Health Dep’t. but have had no reply since Tuesday,last.

My searching on the Internet came up with the answer that only Chinese PN do this and the culprit is an Unsaturated Triglyceride, not any metal or pesticide!

SO maybe we have to add Hydrogen to the double bond to make the TRIGLYCERIDE SATURATED!

By: AP

AP — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:20:51 +0000

Got it! I too, ate a handful of pine nuts while making pesto- ended up with “the taste” by Monday. I notice in many of the posts above that people who snacked on the nuts during food prep ended up with pine mouth- I wonder if that has something to do with it that makes it more prevelant? I am on day 5 and the taste is more of an after taste now- before it was a constant flavor that lingered in my mouth. I find that I sweet items taste awful, but salty foods are a bit better with just the after taste currently. I guess the good thing is that I am not eating all the sweets I normally would- not an ideal diet- but it is what it is!

By: D

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:13:02 +0000

Thank you SOOO much for sharing your experience. At first, I thought I was pregnant. Nope. Then I was afraid I had cancer or something equally bad. Then I found your post. I felt immediately better (at least when not eating). Today is day 2. Everything tastes horribly so I’ve given up eating. Fortunately, it seems to have killed my appetite as well… I’m off to try to lemon concoction Lisa suggested. Wish me luck.

By: JonMcP

JonMcP — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:13:03 +0000

Amazing– almost a year after your post and you’re still getting hits. You’ve described pine mouth very well. I’m only at the end of day 2, if I seriously have 6 – 12 more days of this I am going to go crazy.

By: donnab

donnab — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:36:55 +0000

Yuck. Thank you for your very helpful post. I would have kept eating that damn pesto salad and snacked on pine nuts if I hadn’t!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:37:05 +0000

Ive found “warheads” candy the extreme sour variety helpful – Day 4 for me – got doubly got by chinese pinenuts both whole and in pesto

the only other food ive found is stomachable is hot french fries with lots of peri-peri sauce or hot sauce and mayonnaise – give it a go if your over eating pencil shaving

Ive also found that the taste evolves the same as mentioned above from metallic to soapy but always bitter

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:25:56 +0000

9.30 – taste is back