We bought these prettily packaged chocs as a gift for my diabetic aunt. However, we didn't get to see her and instead of letting the chocs go to waste, thought we would sample them ourselves.

BEWARE! We didn't read the packet first which was a real mistake - my husband is not someone who can leave the chocs alone once they are open and was merrily chomping away when he found himself feeling rather poorly in the tummy department! After about 25 minutes he had to rush off to the loo and continued to do so 7 or so times in the next 12 hours. My husband has a cast-iron stomach so for a food to have this effect is highly unusual.

WHY did it happen? Looking at the small print, there is a warning: "Excessive consumption may produce laxative effects." When looking further down the box at the small print, there was the following warning:

"This product contains polyols and we recommend eating no more than 20g polyols per day due to potential laxative effects. However sensitive individuals may react to levels less than this."

The nutritional information states that each chocolate has 6.5g of polyols so this means that you shouldn't eat more than 3 chocs per day. 4 chocs is not "excessive consumption" to my mind. However, my husband had eaten 7 chocs before he realised !!!

TASTE? They were ok but not as tasty as Thorntons regular chocs. They all taste a bit samey and lack the "freshness" of Thorntons regular chocs. The box contains an assortment of Turkish delight, caramel flavour choc truffle, nutty almond praline, vanilla fudge, coffee truffle, dairy toffee and citrus fruit truffle. In our opinion, the Turkish delight, citrus fruit truffle and vanilla fudge were the best in box.

Recommendation: a palatable option for diabetics but be warned of the laxative effects!!!