Holle Organic Milk Cereal with Baby Biscuit and Apple

Holle Organic Milk Cereal with Baby Biscuit and Apple, 250 g, from 6 months

Holle Organic Milk Cereal with Baby Biscuit and Apple is an organic baby cereal for babies from 6 months. It is a milk porridge with the milk already in it, built on whole grain oat, wheat and rye flour at 39 percent with organic full-cream milk powder at 30 percent, plus organic butter biscuit powder and apple powder at 6 percent each. It comes as a powder in a 250 g carton, and because the milk is in the mix you make each bowl up with water alone.

The biscuit is what gives this one its character. Holle puts in a real organic butter biscuit powder, made of wheat flour, butter and skimmed milk powder, and that is where the flavor comes from rather than any added flavoring. A baby biscuit taste is familiar and mild, which is useful in the first weeks of spoon feeding, when a bowl that smells like something a baby already recognizes is easier to get accepted.

Three cereals carry the grain side: whole grain oat flour, whole grain wheat flour and whole grain rye flour, together 39 percent, all whole grain and all gluten-bearing. The wheat appears twice, once in that cereal blend and again inside the biscuit powder. For a baby who has already met oats, wheat and rye separately this is a straightforward mixed cereal; for one who has not, it brings three grains at once and should wait.

Holle makes one comparative statement about this cereal that is worth repeating accurately: it states a 30 percent lower sugar content than similar cereals with milk. Separately, it states no added sugar and no added flavorings, footnoting that the cereal naturally contains the sugars present in the milk, the grain and the apple. There is no added palm oil and no added vegetable oil of any kind, which keeps the fat in the bowl coming from the milk powder and the butter in the biscuit.

Three vitamins are added and nothing else: vitamin B1, vitamin D and vitamin A. Everything else on the declaration is cereal, milk, maltodextrin, biscuit and apple. As a European baby cereal in 100 percent organic quality, it is a short list with the milk already counted, which is the whole reason a milk cereal exists. Holle positions it as a bowl that works particularly well before bedtime.

Where this one sits in the weaning day

Holle points this cereal at bedtime, and authorized retailers list it as the good-night porridge in the range. The recipe is why: 30 percent full-cream milk powder plus three whole grains makes a bowl that is milk-led and substantial rather than light and fruity, which is the shape of a last feed rather than a first one. A biscuit-and-apple flavor fits the evening better than a berry does.

From 6 months it works as a bowl that replaces a milk feed rather than one eaten alongside it. That is the useful way to think about any milk cereal: the milk is already in the carton, so a prepared bowl is closer to a meal than a side dish. If your baby is still taking most of the day's nutrition from breast milk or formula, this is one of the bowls that starts to move that balance across to solids.

It is a reasonable early cereal but not a first cereal. Three gluten grains and cow's milk arrive together, plus butter, and the carton also carries a traces warning for egg, soy, hazelnut, almond, mustard and lupin. A baby who has already taken those grains and dairy can come straight to this carton. A baby who has met none of them should meet them one at a time, a few days apart, before a mixed bowl like this one.

How to prepare Holle Organic Milk Cereal with Baby Biscuit and Apple

The quantities, in one place

Quantities are the ones published for this cereal by an authorized Holle retailer. Holle's own product page states express preparation and refers you to the carton for the measures, so the carton in your hand governs. A heaped tablespoon varies, so the gram weight is the figure to work to.

How the two Holle milk cereals from 6 months differ

Holle makes more than one milk cereal for this age and they are prepared identically, so the choice is about grain and flavor rather than method. The table sets the two 6-month cartons side by side.

Both cartons are 250 g and both are prepared with water alone. This table compares grain and flavor only. It is not a nutritional comparison and no equivalence between the two is implied.

What is in it

The carton's declaration in full: contains oat, wheat, rye, cow's milk and butter; may contain traces of egg, soy, hazelnut, almond, mustard and lupin; ingredients marked with an asterisk are from organic agriculture.

Read as a list, that is three whole grain cereals, two milk powders, a carrier, a butter biscuit, apple and three added vitamins. Cereal flour is 39 percent, full-cream milk powder is 30 percent, and the biscuit and the apple are 6 percent each. No sugar, no flavoring, no palm oil and no added vegetable oil appear anywhere on the declaration.

• 39% whole grain cereal flours
• 30% full-cream milk powder
• 6% organic butter biscuit powder
• 6% apple powder
• No added sugar
• No added flavorings
• Without palm oil
• No added vegetable oils
• With vitamins B1, D and A
• 100% organic quality
• Contains gluten and milk

How many bowls a 250 g carton makes

A powdered cereal has no fluid yield of its own, so the useful figure is the bowl count. One bowl takes 40 g of powder, which is the single published portion for this cereal, so the arithmetic is simple.

About six bowls per carton, which is also the portion count published for it, so the arithmetic and the stated figure agree. Each bowl comes to roughly 180 g prepared once the 140 ml of water is in. A heaped tablespoon varies from kitchen to kitchen, so treat the count as a planning figure rather than a promise.

The bowl count is calculated from the published 40 g portion and the 250 g pack size, and it matches the about six portions stated for this cereal. The prepared weight is the sum of the powder and the water rather than a figure quoted by Holle.

Product highlights

• Organic milk cereal
• From 6 months
• 250 g carton
• Whole grain oat, wheat, rye
• 30% full-cream milk powder
• Organic butter biscuit powder
• 6% apple powder
• Made up with water only
• No added sugar or flavorings
• Without palm oil
• About 6 bowls per carton
• Contains gluten and milk

Frequently asked questions

Other Holle cereals and what goes with this one

• Holle Organic Milk Cereal with Oat, Strawberry and AppleThe single-grain version of the same idea, also from 6 months.
• Holle Milk Cereal with BananaThe same milk-included format with banana as the fruit.
• Holle Organic Wholegrain Semolina PorridgeA simpler grain porridge with no milk powder, so you choose the liquid.
• Holle Organic Baby Spelt BiscuitThe biscuit on its own, for a baby who wants something to hold.
• Holle Organic Spelt Baby Rusk, 200 gA plain spelt rusk that can be crumbled into a bowl or handed over whole.
• Holle Organic Porridges and CerealsThe whole Holle cereal range, sorted by age and grain.

Written from Holle's own published product information for this cereal and from the ingredient declaration published for this carton, which match entry for entry. The preparation quantities and the portion count come from an authorized Holle retailer, because Holle's own page refers to the carton for the measures. The age and the pack size are taken from the product itself. The 30 percent lower sugar statement is Holle's own comparative claim and is attributed as such. Demeter certification is not claimed, because Holle does not state it for this product. Last reviewed 15 October 2026.