Ok I can hardly believe this one either except for the fact that I am experiencing it first hand. I had never heard of this until yesterday.
Over easter we did a fabulous 4 day walk and as usual mixed some home-made trail mix (scroggin) for the trip. For the first time however I added Lucky brand Natural Seed Mix with Pine Nuts! Sounds good and it is just Pepitas, Sunflower kernels and pine nuts. Two days after pigging out on our scroggin on the trail I developed an AWFUL bitter taste in my mouth every time I ate or drank. Turns out there is a certain small round pine nut from China which over the last 20 years has been found to be the possible cause of this new syndrome called pine-mouth.
See the info here on the NSW Food Authority website….
http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/science/risk-framework-and-studies/food-risk-studies/pine-nuts-and-pine-mouth/#.U1X91VxshZg
Would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced this and thought it might be worth bringing to people's attention as I know lots of us make our own trail mix. And speaking from my experience pine-mouth is absolutely disgusting and awful and I've got a week before it clears up!!!
I ended up opening about three bottles of wine yesterday thinking they were all rubbish when in fact it was just those stupid pine nuts. Hopefully the wine will last until my mouth clears up.
Chrissy