The door in my wardrobe*

*the door not actually being there was a disappointment - but at least I was allowed to play with the clothes

//// Pine mouth incident

Posted on | March 3, 2010 | 5 Comments

Oh, this is so totally unrelated thing… …but it kind of explains the blog silence of the past few days.

On Monday I recognized a strong metallic taste in my mouth. First I thought that I had just licked or inhaled some nasty chemical (I hate aerosols for this particular reason, I get the foul taste to my mouth so easily). But it just continued. Everything tasted bad, especially wine made me almost nauseous. My appetite was plummeting. Googling taste symptoms does not give particularly encouraging results and I started to feel very bad about this — I’ve been struggling with my health so much lately.

Then I just accidentally ran in the article about pine mouth — curiously pine nuts can cause this funky taste distortion to some people. Not all pine nuts do it — nor all people do get the symptoms. It takes usually 1 to 3 days from the ingestion of the nuts for the symptoms to appear — and from few days to couple of weeks for them to disappear. On Saturday I made a delicious side dish with roasted pine nuts, spinach and garlic. And on Sunday I followed the example of Anu and whipped up a homemade nut müesli, containing pine nuts among everything else. These nuts are from different sources so I can’t be sure which ones caused it.

What an enormous relief to find a very likely explanation with no health implications involved at all.

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Discussion

  1. dust
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 3:26 pm

    Glad to hear you’re well and healthy!
    The question is : is the delicious taste of roasted pine nuts worth the metallic aftertaste?

  2. Kamicha
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 4:10 pm

    I love pine nuts — and will certainly not stop eating them. There is no research or consensus between the people what actually causes the effect and how, but it might be that it is a certain variety of pine nuts that cause it. The particular type comes usually from China. The seed is smaller and rounder than in the Mediterranean variety.

    If this is true I’m probably blaming the organic nuts of my müesli — they fit to the description and might be from China (although the shop is still finding out the origins, the nuts were sold by weight and they did not have the original package left to tell about the origins). I will take some pictures when I find out more about the issue.

    But if this lasts two weeks I have to say that nothing is worth of this. I can barely eat. Sweet and creamy stuff tastes ok initially — but the aftertaste is horrible. And foods with any bitter elements taste horrible all the way, black coffee and red wine being the worst *deep sigh*. Some people say that white wine and balsamic vinegar taste ok… …so maybe some salad and white wine for dinner…

  3. Anna
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 5:12 pm

    Hey,
    funny I was actually getting worried because of the silence on your blog!
    I check in every now and then and was wondering what’s going on, glad to hear you’re okay!

  4. gerald chia
    March 4th, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    I hope you get well soon :) take care!

  5. Excuses, excuses : The door in my wardrobe*
    March 11th, 2010 @ 9:39 pm

    […] angle, trust me ;-D. And excuse my extremely tired face, I’m actually starving because of this pine mouth experience… Tags: Ash > outfits > personal style > Selected Femme > Vero […]

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