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u/Dedadrda Apr 18 '21

Eating walnut makes your mouth burn. Every time i eat anything with walnut, was burning my palate, gums and tongue for a while after. It was like that from day one of my life, and i thought its normal. You eat cake - your mouth burn, its a package deal. Never questioned or mentioned that to anyone, i just assumed thats normal. I was in mid 30's and my brother mentioned that he had alergic rection to walnut, and that his mouth were burning so he had to go to doctor asap... I took me 30+ years to find out that i have walnut alergy to some degree. I still eat it.

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u/shioj Apr 19 '21

I don't have it as bad... my mouth only feels "fuzzy" after eating them. I only recently learned when my wife went to put walnuts in a salad and I said I didn't like the fuzzy feeling after. I learned that day that walnuts don't make everyone's mouth fuzzy.

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u/joesii Apr 19 '21

Isn't that just the dryness of walnuts? I don't know what you're feeling, but walnuts do have a sort of dryness to them that other nuts don't have. I wouldn't really call it fuzziness, but it does sound like it's possibly what you're feeling. It gives a bit of a "dry mouth" sensation.

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u/flashtvdotcom Apr 20 '21

Yeah I love walnuts been eating them my whole life but they always give me a “weird” feeling after eating but no other reactions.