This is the season for ginkgo nuts. My wife bought some the other day, and we had Japanese savory egg custard (“chawanmushi”) with ginkgo nuts on Monday night. Then she roasted some for me later. I ate more than 15 nuts that night. I started to wonder if I had eaten too many, so I used Google to check. It said that an adult should eat no more than 10 nuts. Oops! It was too late, but I was feeling okay. Then, in the middle of the night, my body started to shake, and my stomach hurt. Google was right. I shouldn’t have eaten so many ginkgo nuts! I’ll be more careful the next time.   (115 nuts)

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