For the last couple of days, I've had this really really bad taste in my mouth - all the time. Disgusting!

Tonight I started to think I must really have something wrong with my stomach, so I started to google.

To my astonishment, I discovered that eating pine nuts produces this foul taste - it can take from one to four days for it to start - and I have recently been eating them by the fistful!! Wow! So beware - they're great to eat but the aftermath is bleh!! I have eaten so many that I don't know when this taste will begin to go away.

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Goodness Helen I've not heard that before. Are you eating them raw or toasted or doesn't it make any difference.

I don't eat very many but occasionally toast a few to toss over a salad.

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Yasmin
Stairway Of Life

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Apparently it's only the large Chinese pine nuts that have this effect! So if you buy any, make sure you check the labelling to find out their provenance!

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I wonder if this is anything to do with the melamine scare, where melamine has now been found in Chinese eggs, sweets, and the latest - body paint from Adult sex shops. I did read where melamine is created inside mamals and plants from a chemical reaction from an insecticide - crys... - something, which is commonly used. Sorry but I can't remember the name.

P.S.Ooops - it was not an insecticide but the some chemical in the fertiliser they use.

Last edited: 4-11-2008 01:52:17 AM

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hmm, I usually include pine nuts in my annual nut roast, which I cook for Christmas dinner.Will add that info to what to look out for on the packet next year!

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