Is there anything bad about them as I seem to be eating bloody loads of them these days!

Certain varieties are surprisingly high in sugar. In fact there has been a concerted effort to increase the sweetness of most supermarket offerings.

Best of all if you can pick and eat them still warm from sunlight.

Cheers Jamie, I knew it was too good to be true, I clearly may well live to the age of one of those gnarly old Italian fellas but I’ll have no **** teeth left!

Just don’t try and grow your own.

about half a teaspoon of sugar in your average Tom, loads of other stuff in there including fibre vitamins and something that keeps you young so not a bad place to get the sugar you do need.

And they taste nice, plum types are may favourite.

There are more life giving properties in Toms than you might imagine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXI-dmuyZkA