Thread: PIC: Toasted pine nuts

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"I'm back." <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://tinypic.com/m/efffd1/3
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> A very tasty snack by themselves, but absolutely wonderful in my signature
> salad.

They are good, but around here, you have to really watch out for the
cheap imported ones. A buddy of mine in Arizona recently had this
problem (Pine Mouth). The bitter taste in her mouth ruined any foods she
tried to eat and lasted for 2 weeks. She'd eaten some in a salad at a
luncheon with a friend.

Quoted from Wiki:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_nut>

"Risks of eating pine nuts

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
regullarly consumed somewhere in the world[15] and the aforementioned
Chinese pine species were not included. Metallic taste disturbance,
known as metallogeusia, is typically reported 13 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."
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