Holle Bio Wholegrain Rice Baby Porridge

Holle Organic Wholegrain Rice Baby Porridge, from 6 months

Holle Organic Wholegrain Rice Baby Porridge is a single-grain organic baby cereal for babies from 6 months. The box declares wholegrain rice flour at 100 percent with the vitamin B1 European rules require, and nothing else. It is gluten free and milk free, it needs no boiling, and it is made up with breast milk, infant formula, whole milk or plain water.

Rice is the grain most families reach for first, and a 100 percent rice cereal is the cleanest way to use it. One grain in the box means one new thing in the bowl, so this is a cereal you can genuinely introduce rice with rather than introducing rice, three other grains and a milk powder at the same time. That is the argument for a plain cereal at the start of weaning and it is the whole design of this box.

It is gluten free, because rice carries no gluten, and Holle labels its organic rice cereal milk free as well. So the pack brings neither gluten nor dairy, and what the bowl ends up containing is entirely a function of the liquid you choose. That makes it as useful for a milk-free household as it is for a first bowl.

The milling is what makes it work without cooking. Holle processes the wholemeal rice into a form a baby can digest, breaking the grain starch down gently with heat and moisture so that a maturing digestive system can use it. Because the whole grain is used, the nutrients and active substances of the grain are largely retained. In the kitchen that means warm liquid and a stir rather than a pan and a hob.

Where it earns a long stay in the cupboard is that it is a base, not a recipe. A cereal-milk paste can be made with breast milk, infant formula or fresh milk; water gives the milk-free version from the very start of weaning; and fruit or vegetable puree stirred through makes it part of a mixed bowl as the diet widens. The main ingredient is grown in Italy. This listing is sold as a single box or as a pack of four.

Where a single-grain rice cereal fits

This is a first-weaning cereal, and rice is the conventional place to begin. It is mild, it is smooth once it has swollen, and it carries no gluten, so it lets you separate the question of introducing a grain from the question of introducing gluten. Most families use rice or millet for the first cereal bowls and then widen out from there.

The usual approach is one grain at a time, a few days apart, so that if something disagrees you know which grain was responsible. A mixed cereal cannot give you that, which is why a plain box is worth keeping even after you own more interesting ones: it is the control you come back to.

It also keeps earning its place after the first bowls. Prepared with water it is the plainest possible porridge; prepared with breast milk, formula or fresh milk it becomes a cereal-milk paste; with fruit or vegetable puree stirred through it becomes part of a mixed baby meal. The grain never changes, only what you put with it, which is what makes a single-grain box last across several stages.

How to prepare Holle Wholegrain Rice Porridge

The 120 ml and 15 g quantities are the ones published for this box. Holle states plainly that this is only a guide and that you can prepare the porridge to the texture and quantity your baby prefers. A level tablespoon varies, so treat them as a starting point.

Why this cereal arrives in two different boxes

This product is produced in two different packages, each designed for the regulations of the market it is sold into. Whichever box arrives, the contents are the same product with the same ingredients, made in the same facility. It is worth knowing in advance, because the front of the two boxes does not look identical and the printed wording can differ.

Holle's own Swiss and German product page for its organic rice cereal declares the grain as rice flour at 100 percent with thiamine, where this box declares wholegrain rice flour at 100 percent with vitamin B1. The difference is in how the grain is described rather than in what the box is for, and the declaration printed on the box in your hand is the one that governs. For the same reason, the certification labels Holle publishes for its rice cereal beyond organic, gluten free and milk free, namely vegan, vegetarian, lactose free and halal, are not repeated on this page.

What is in it

Read as a list, that is one grain and one vitamin. Nothing is added to sweeten, salt, flavor or color it, and the vitamin B1 is the thiamine European rules require in a baby cereal.

• One grain, one vitamin
• 100% wholegrain rice flour
• Certified organic
• Gluten free
• Milk free
• No added sugar
• No added salt
• No added flavors
• No added colors
• Main ingredient grown in Italy

How far a box goes

A dry cereal has no fluid yield, so the honest figure is how much goes into one bowl. This listing does not state a net box weight, and Holle does not publish one for this cereal, so a bowls-per-box count cannot be given without inventing the divisor. What is published is the bowl itself.

What can be said is that 15 grams is a small bowl by the standards of later weaning, which is why a single box covers a good stretch of the first cereal feeds, and that the four-box pack size exists for a household already using it daily. Holle's quantities are a guide, so a smaller early bowl stretches a box further than any division would suggest.

No bowls-per-box figure is claimed here, because neither this listing nor Holle publishes a net weight for this cereal. The per-bowl quantities above are the published ones.

Product highlights

• Organic baby cereal
• From 6 months
• 100% wholegrain rice flour
• First-weaning cereal
• Gluten free
• Milk free
• With vitamin B1
• No added sugar or salt
• No boiling needed
• Prepare with milk or water
• Rice grown in Italy
• Single box or 4 boxes

Frequently asked questions

Other Holle cereals and what goes with this one

• Holle Organic Millet CerealThe other gluten-free single grain, from the 5th month.
• Holle Organic Oats Baby PorridgeA single oat cereal, once gluten grains have been met.
• Holle Organic Wholegrain Semolina PorridgeA wheat semolina cereal, as a later single grain.
• HiPP Organic 100% Rice Porridge, 200 gA rice cereal from HiPP, dated from 4 months.
• Holle Mixed Vegetables with Rice, 220 gA vegetable puree to stir through, from 8 months.
• All organic baby food and snacksBrowse the whole organic food and snack range.

Written from the ingredient, allergen, preparation and origin declarations published for this box, together with Holle's own published product information for its organic rice cereal, which confirms the 6 month age and the organic, gluten free and milk free labelling. Holle's page declares the grain as rice flour where this box declares wholegrain rice flour; because the two declarations differ, the vegan, vegetarian, lactose free and halal labels Holle publishes for that cereal are not repeated here, and no Demeter claim is made. The age and the pack-size options are taken from the product itself. No nutrition table and no net box weight is published, so no bowls-per-box figure is given and no amino acid claim is made. Last reviewed 15 October 2026.