What on earth is pine mouth?

I discovered something fascinating this week. A condition called pine mouth, which is an adverse reaction to eating pine nuts.

During this past week, everything has just tasted weird. Apart from a headache I felt otherwise fine. I turned to good old Google for help. Typing 'everything tastes funny' came up with a plethora of information and lucky for me I clicked on a blog that detailed my EXACT symptoms. I had eaten pine nuts numerous times over New Years weekend in 3 different dishes so it made sense.

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