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If you have recently suffered from a really unpleasant, persistent bitter or metallic taste in your mouth and couldn't find an explanation for it, even after visiting a dentist or doctor, it's possible it might have been caused by Chinese pine nuts.
It seems that there is a minor epidemic of pine nut related taste disturbances going on in Europe at the moment and I've been unlucky enough to be one of the ones affected by it since I bought a big bag of Chinese pine nuts to snack on last week.
The nuts themselves tasted fine at the time but about six to eight hours after starting to eat them (long enough for me not to make the connection), the taste in my mouth evolved into something similar to what you'd expect after drinking a stale shot of espresso. Not wanting to be one of those people who Googles their symptoms and immediately comes to the wrong/worst possible conclusion, I only started hunting on the web today and was relieved to discover that pine nuts are the most likely cause and not heavy metal poisoning.
In the UK the Food Standards Agency is investigating the problem and from what I've read on the net, other countries' local agencies are doing the same thing so hopefully the cause will be determined soon. In the meantime, it seems that while the taste is very unpleasant and makes food and drink somewhat unpalatable, there doesn't appear to be any health risk involved...
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