Apple tarts

Popina, Apple and Plum £6 per 750g tart, www.popina.co.uk
The apples taste like proper apples. It's not overly buttery or rich, and tastes fresh. The plums are a nice touch. Pretty delicious. 4 stars (out of 5)
Sainsbury's, Taste the Difference, Tarte aux Pommes
£3.99 per 460g
The pastry is very light and crisp. There's a lot of sieved cinnamon on top, but the apples taste juicy and sharp. 3 stars

Waitrose £4.29 per 550g tart
There's a nice layering of pastry, compôte and apple slices. But the pastry is limp and damp and lets down a pretty nice filling. 2 stars

Marks Spencer, Tarte aux Pommes £4.99 per 360g tart
Far, far too sweet. There's no compôte so the apples slip off and the whole thing tastes undercooked. 1 star

Custard tarts

Sainsbury's 59p for 2 individual tarts
The filling is nice and eggy. It tastes natural. The pastry is quite crisp and it has the most authentic custardy texture, too. 4 stars

Marks & Spencer £1.04 for 4 individual tarts
The filling is very nice, the pastry is crumbly but the top is scattered with huge, great chunks of overpowering nutmeg. 3 stars

Morrisons 99p for family-sized tart
There's more egg white than yolk in the custard. The pastry also looks moulded and false, and it's a bit stale. The truly generous amount of filling makes up for it. 2 stars

Daylesford, Organic £2.95 per tart, www.daylesfordorganic.com
Looks special, but the pastry is soggy and collapses when prodded. 1 star

Bakewell tarts

Tesco £2.18 per 340g tart
Lovely. The pastry is impressive, there's a good helping of jam and you can really taste the frangipane. 5 stars

Popina £4 for 4 individual tarts
These look very special. There's not a whole lot of filling and it's odd that they've replaced the jam with a single cherry, but it's a nice concept. 4 stars

Sainsbury's £1.08 for 6 tarts
Half of this is tart and the other half is pure icing. There's a tiny smear of jam and I can't taste the frangipane. Incredibly sweet. 1 star

Holly Lane 69p for 6 tarts, Aldi
This is dry, bland and tasteless. I can't taste the jam or the frangipane. In fact, I can't taste a single thing. 0 stars

Fruit tarts

Tesco, Finest, Tarte aux Fruits £4.49 per 585g tart
The fruit is a real mix. Some good, some a bit too exotic, but the crème patissière is very tasty indeed and the pastry is nicely crisped up. 4 stars

Forman & Field £3.34 per 170g slice, www.formanandfield.com
This looks very special. It's topped with a generous and eclectic selection of red berries. Not much crème patissi're but it sort of works as it tastes light. 4 stars

Marks & Spencer £3.29 for 2 individual tarts
Crisp pastry, but the crème is bland and the fruit selection is just bizarre. 3 stars

Morrisons 99p per individual tart
This tart is terrible. The pastry is damp, the crème is sour and tastes like it's been soaked with tinned fruit juice and the fruit doesn't look fresh at all. 0 stars

Lemon tarts

Forman & Field, Tarte Au Citron £3.34 per 170g slice
The pastry is a little soggy, but the filling is wonderful. It's scattered with lemon zest and tastes of fresh lemon. Delicious. 4 stars

Morrisons, The Best £3.79 per family-sized tart
The colour is spot on and it tastes very lemony. Sadly the pastry is a little soggy and tastes almost metallic. Not bad at all, though. 3 stars

Daylesford, Organic £2.95 per individual tart
The neon shade filling scares me. It tastes like orange, not lemon, and the pastry's floppy and undercooked. 2 stars

Duchy £4.39 per 500g tart, Budgens
The ingredients taste fresh and the filling is lovely, rich and creamy. But it doesn't taste of lemon, just dairy. The pastry is a damp catastrophe. 2 stars

Jam Tarts

Mr Kipling £1.39 for 6, Tesco
Nice jam. Basic and standard, but nice. The pastry isn't too bad, either. But neither jam nor pastry taste authentic. I fear a high sugar content in this. 3 stars

Tesco 53p for 6
The jam is tasty. Nice and tart, as it should be. The pastry is flat, verging on insipid, and sadly this lets it down, but not bad. 3 stars

Morrisons 69p for 6
I don't trust the pastry. It's an odd colour. The jam is nice but has the consistency of glue and it sticks to the roof of your mouth. 2 stars

Sainsbury's 53p for 6
A bland, tasteless, sugary mush sitting in a bland tasteless pastry case of nothingness. 0 stars