Village farmers have won an award for a new fruit juice made from leftover apples and pears in their orchards.
Tendring Fruit supplies it's apples and pears, grown in orchards in Wrabness and Great Oakley, to supermarkets.
But a glut of the produce, mishaped or with blemishes, is not classed as good enough for the shelves and faces being left to rot.
To stop the waste the company came up with a plan to press the fruit into a juice.
Despite only being the second year of production, the juice has been given a Great Taste award.
Blind-tasted and judged by more than 400 food critics, chefs, cooks, restauranteurs, producers and journalists, the awards scheme is a respected food accreditation.
Both the Braeburn Apple Juice and the Braeburn Apple and Conference Pear Juice were given one star awards.
