The symptoms normally disappear after several days and there are no adverse health effects.

The cause of pine mouth has not been determined, but several researchers have indicated that a particular species and source of pine nut, Pinus armandii exported from the Shaanxi and Shanxi regions of China, may be responsible for causing the symptoms. This species of pine nut was previously only consumed locally and not widely exported for consumption as whole nuts.

  • DeebsterEnglish
    20•3 months ago

    I had this! It happened in maybe 2010 and there wasn’t much information available online, but enough for me to figure that it was the pine nuts. It lasted for about five days and never happened again.

    • BoozillaEnglish
      7•3 months ago

      That must have been a little scary.

      I’ve noticed an odd aftertaste from them, but nothing that lasted for days.

      • DeebsterEnglish
        5•3 months ago

        If I hadn’t had found others saying it was the pine nuts then I’d be worried it was a brain tumour or something.

        It was reported it could last weeks or months, so I was happy enough with only five days.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 months ago

      On a semi-related note, I barely remember what it was like to have strange health symptoms and not be able to get some possible causes right away.

  • Yer MaEnglish
    18•3 months ago

    Holy shit, I thought I had lost my mind when this happened to me

    • Drusas
      2•3 months ago

      Do you get the same effect when eating pesto?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•3 months ago

        Pesto contains pine nuts.

        Not sure if that helps or answers anything tho.

        Edit: From a different comment here, they mentioned pine nuts being the cause for them. Seems very plausible then.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•3 months ago

    This happened to my wife a couple years ago, really freaked her out. She loves food, so it depressed her for almost two weeks to not get to enjoy anything