Urban Cordial’s British fruit surplus cordials tick every box. Established by Natasha Steele, she started out making cordials for herself from produce foraged on her allotment.

She kept true to the produce letting the natural flavours shine without adding loads of sugar and with initial gluts started out on farmer’s markets.

How Natasha sources her raw produce when it is in its prime from local farms taking surplus produce which was deemed odd looking by the traditional markets and which would ordinarily have gone into landfill. At the other end, any fruit pulp from her production goes back to the farm to become animal feed. To date Natasha has helped save over 100 tonnes of fruit.

Incredibly, these are not the only benefits of these cordials. What you get is a product which is lower in sugar and beautifully balanced in flavour using lovely combinations like Strawberry & Sage, Raspberry & Rosemary and Blackberry & Lavender. At this time of year they lend themselves so well to cocktails with recipes on the website and if you re-stock going into the Autumn they make the most wonderful hot toddies too.

Pictures from urbancordial.com

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