Imagine taking 50 pennies and placing them in your mouth. Get them all up in there, lined against your gums. Put them on top of your tongue, so all your taste buds are covered. How does that taste?

I’ve been writing about food for quite awhile now, about eight years. And I’ve been eating food for more than six times that long. So it’s a surprise when I come across a food topic that I have never ...

Scientists on the trail of "pine nut mouth," a nasty metallic aftertaste that some people get after eating the tender little nuts, have been stumped in their latest effort to zero in on the cause of ...

A listener was wondering what my response as a restaurant person is to hearing about pine nut mouth. So here it is. We will no longer have pine nuts on the menu. If we happen to find Italian or ...

They’re the caviar of nuts and saviour of sad salads. But did you know they can cause a mysterious condition that makes food taste bad? (Thankfully, it's not permanent.) Here’s everything you’ve ever ...

New research investigating the composition of pine nuts has failed to fully uncover a reason behind the mystery of why thousands of people around the world have experienced taste disturbances – known ...

The strange and not-yet-totally unraveled mystery of what’s being called “pine nut mouth” began for Oakland massage therapist Maura Hennessy on Super Bowl Sunday. As Hennessy whipped up homemade ...