the brave little toaster goes to mars i ran outta juice

What candidates do we have among commonly eaten pine nut species ( according to Wikipedia) My theory is that these are actually a different species of pine nut. It is also the first time I have had ‘Baby’ pine nuts which were sold as being small. Now I eat pine nuts a lot (I am a veggie) and this is the first time this has happened. The wikipedia pine nut page currently summarises and has a few links to discussion groups where the effect is mentioned. Importantly there was no fungal contamination, no pesticide contamination and they didn’t know what species of tree the nuts were from but they had come from China. A test subject also consumed two portions of nuts which I guess they wouldn’t do if they were oxidized.

In the initial case the pine nuts were oxidized and not fit for consumption but six other cases are mentioned and it is not clear if these were oxidized.

There is a very short scientific-like paper out there Taste disturbances after pine nut ingestion.

My skin isn’t yellow and my pee isn’t orange and I am not thirsty all the time but I had eaten a new kind of pine nut in the last few days so the third option looks like it warrants attention. I either had jaundice or I was diabetic or I had eaten pine nuts (possibly from China) in the last few days. At first I thought I was going to die so I Googled on it – how many people a minute go through that process! My scatter gun approach to diagnosis came up with a series of suggestions. I started to get a bitter taste in my mouth after eating.

The brave little toaster goes to mars i ran outta juice