Mark Thorson wrote:
> I recently noticed that Trader Joe's no longer
> has pine nuts. I was buying them there because
> they were much cheaper than Whole Foods.
>
> Today I heard on National Public Radio about
> a taste disorder termed "pine mouth", which
> is an adverse reaction to eating pine nuts.
> It was speculated this was caused either by
> rancid pine nuts or Chinese pine nuts from
> two species of trees not known to produce
> edible pine nuts. I don't know if the
> disappearance of pine nuts from Trader Joe's
> is related to this.
>
> Apparently, this phenomenon has been known
> for some time.
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1184261
>
> On a related note, the Korean cooking show
> Cooking Time recently recommended washing pine
> nuts, saying the fat in pine nuts absorbs dust
> from the air. I no longer try to make sense
> of anything they say. Watching that show is
> like watching the religious broadcasts of the
> late Dr. Gene Scott. I watch it because it's
> so wacky.

Interesting about TJ's. I seem to recall that they had stopped
getting items from China (unless they were components in something
else).

--
Jean B.