HiPP Organic Apple & Grape Juice (500 ml)

What is HiPP Organic Apple & Grape Juice?

This is a 100% organic fruit juice for babies from 4 months and for adults, made from low-acid apple juice at 77% and low-acid white grape juice at 23%, with vitamin C. There is no added sugar, and the bottle is 500 ml.

Two things set a baby juice apart from the carton in the supermarket. The first is that both juices here are low in acid, which is the whole reason this one is suitable so early — a baby's stomach and a baby's mouth handle a de-acidified juice far better than a sharp one. The second is that it is 100% fruit juice: there is no water, no sweetener and no sugar added to make up the volume.

The blend is deliberate. Apple carries most of it and keeps the flavor familiar and mild. White grape juice rounds it out and makes it naturally sweeter than apple alone, which is why this combination is usually taken more readily than a single-fruit juice. The fruit is from organic production, and the juice is GMO-free.

The added vitamin C is the one thing in the bottle that is not fruit. Vitamin C matters at this age for more than its own sake: it helps the body absorb iron from plant foods, which is why offering a vitamin-C drink alongside a cereal or vegetable meal is a long-standing piece of weaning advice.

It is a European baby drink from HiPP, intended to be diluted with drinking water and offered from a cup between meals or after a meal — not as a replacement for breast milk or infant formula, which stay the main drink at this age. The 500 ml bottle is vacuum-sealed, so you should hear a click the first time you open it.

Who is this juice for, and where does it fit?

It is for a baby from 4 months as a small, diluted drink alongside meals, and for the rest of the family as an ordinary organic juice. It is a drink, not a feed — breast milk or infant formula remains your baby's main source of nutrition.

In practice most families use it in two ways. Diluted one part juice to one part water, it is a mild first drink from a cup, which is also a useful way to practice cup drinking. Offered with or just after a cereal or vegetable meal, the vitamin C helps your baby absorb the iron in that meal — the pairing is the point.

Because it is low in acid and 100% juice, it is also the bottle people reach for when a child is off their food and drinking more than eating. The pack's own advice is to drink it between meals or after a meal, and to speak to your doctor about any additional nutrition your baby needs.

How do you serve HiPP Organic Apple & Grape Juice?

Diluted, undiluted, or alongside a meal?

All three are the same bottle. What changes is who is drinking it and what you want it to do, and HiPP's own guidance covers the first two of them.

HiPP's guidance for this bottle is that it can be diluted with drinking water, one part juice to one part water, and that it is best drunk between meals or after a meal. Offering it from a cup rather than a bottle, at a sitting rather than sipped slowly, is our own advice and not a manufacturer instruction.

What is in HiPP Organic Apple & Grape Juice?

• Organic
• No added sugar
• GMO-free
• Rich in vitamin C

There is nothing in the bottle that is not fruit or vitamin C. The apple juice is made from apple juice concentrate and makes up 77% of the blend; the white grape juice makes up the remaining 23% and is what gives the drink its rounder, sweeter note. Both are low in acid, which is the reason this juice is labeled for babies rather than only for adults. No sugar is added — the sugars on the nutrition panel are the fruit's own. The added vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system and helps the body absorb iron from a plant-based meal, which is why it is worth offering with a cereal or vegetable course rather than on its own.

Always read the panel printed on your own bottle before use, as manufacturers reformulate from time to time.

What a 500 ml bottle gives you

This listing is one 500 ml bottle. Because a baby's serving is diluted with an equal measure of water, the bottle goes twice as far for a baby as it does for an adult.

How many drinks that is depends entirely on the size of cup you pour, and HiPP does not publish a serving size for this juice. Rather than invent one, the honest figure is the one above: the bottle holds 500 ml, and diluted as HiPP directs it makes 1,000 ml of drink.

No number of servings is claimed, because no serving size is published for this product. The more useful limit in practice is the opened fridge life: once opened, use the bottle within 3 days. An unopened bottle keeps at room temperature.

Product highlights

• 100% organic fruit juice
• Suitable from 4 months
• 77% apple, 23% white grape
• Both juices low in acid
• With added vitamin C
• No added sugar
• GMO-free
• 500 ml bottle
• Dilute 1:1 with water
• Suitable for adults too
• Keeps 3 days once opened
• Serve from a cup

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• HiPP Multifruit + Vitamin CA multi-fruit blend with vitamin C, from 6 months.
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• HiPP 100% Rice PorridgeA plain cereal to serve the juice alongside, for the iron.
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