Veggie Bunny - Holle Organic Vegetable Puree Pouch

What is Holle Veggie Bunny?

Veggie Bunny is an organic vegetable puree pouch for babies from 6 months, made from carrot, sweet potato and peas with a little lemon juice and water. It is a savory pouch, not a fruit one — there is no fruit in the recipe — and it comes in a 100 g resealable pouch.

The three vegetables are almost the whole of the declared composition: carrot at 68%, sweet potato at 20% and peas at 8,5%, with lemon juice, water and lemon juice concentrate making up the small remainder. The carrot and the peas come from biodynamic farming; the sweet potato and the lemon juice concentrate come from organic farming. Nothing is added beyond those six ingredients.

That matters more than it sounds. Most pouches on a shelf are fruit, and fruit pouches taste sweet, which is exactly why babies take them easily. A vegetable baby food pouch gives your baby the other half of the flavor map — earthy, mild and faintly sweet from the carrot and the sweet potato rather than from fruit sugar. Peas bring a greener, rounder note underneath.

The texture is a smooth puree, so it suits a baby who is still early into solids as well as one already chewing soft lumps. The pouch has a screw cap, so you can open it, serve a few spoonfuls and close it again rather than committing to the whole thing in one sitting.

It is a European baby food from Holle, the kind of short, legible ingredient list parents reach for when they want to know exactly what is in a pouch. If you are looking for Holle's fruit pouches, they are a different range and they are listed separately — this one is the vegetable one.

Who is Veggie Bunny for, and where does it fit in weaning?

It is for a baby from 6 months who is eating solids and ready to meet vegetables as a meal rather than only as a taste. It works as a quick lunch, as the vegetable half of a meal alongside a cereal, or as a pouch to keep in the changing bag for a day out.

Most weaning plans start with single vegetables — carrot on its own, or potato, or pumpkin — and then move to simple combinations once you know your baby tolerates each one. Veggie Bunny sits at that second step: three vegetables your baby has very likely already met, in one smooth puree, so you are not introducing three new foods at once if you have already been through them separately.

It is also useful later, well past 6 months, as a way to keep vegetables in the rotation on a day when cooking is not happening. Plenty of parents stir a pouch like this into a plain baby cereal to make a savory porridge, which gives the meal more substance than the pouch alone.

How do you serve Holle Veggie Bunny?

What is in the pouch, by percentage

Three vegetables carry almost the whole pouch, and the order tells you how it tastes: carrot first by a long way, sweet potato to thicken it, peas underneath.

The three vegetables together are 96,5 percent of the pouch. Everything else is lemon juice, lemon juice concentrate and water, and there is no fruit, no grain, no starch, no thickener and no additive anywhere in the list.

Percentages and the decimal comma are Holle's own, as published. The double asterisk in the panel is the Demeter mark, biodynamic farming and a stricter standard than organic alone; Holle gives the total Demeter share of this pouch as 77 percent, which is the carrot and the peas. The single asterisk marks the organic ingredients. The panel printed on your pouch is the one that governs.

What is in Holle Veggie Bunny?

• Carrot, sweet potato and peas
• Lemon juice for freshness
• No fruit in the recipe
• Six ingredients, nothing else

A short list is the whole appeal here. Carrot is the base and carries the color and most of the sweetness. Sweet potato thickens the puree and softens the edge of the carrot. Peas bring the green note and a little body. The lemon juice and lemon juice concentrate are there for freshness, not for flavor, and with the water they are the only entries in the pouch that are not a vegetable. Nothing is added for color, texture or shelf life.

What one pouch gives you

A pouch is sold as a portion, so there is nothing to measure. Each pouch holds 100 g, and the weight printed on the back of the pouch governs.

The third row is the one worth knowing about. A plain baby cereal made up with water rather than milk and stirred together with a vegetable puree becomes a milk-free vegetable meal, and this pouch is a ready-made way to do that without cooking and pureeing a carrot yourself.

Holle publishes no portion count for this pouch, so no number of servings is claimed here. The net weight is 100 g per pouch. The two-day opened fridge life is the pouch's own. A pouch your baby has fed from directly should not be kept.

Product highlights

• Organic vegetable puree pouch
• Suitable from 6 months
• Carrot, sweet potato and peas
• Savory, no fruit added
• Six ingredients in total
• 100 g resealable pouch
• Carrot and peas biodynamic
• Gluten-free and lactose-free
• Vegan recipe
• No cooking or water needed
• Keeps 2 days once opened
• Spoon-feed, not continuous sucking

Holle Veggie Bunny: frequently asked questions

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• Holle Carrot Cat PouchCarrot with fruit, for a sweeter take on the same vegetable.
• Holle Mixed Vegetables PureeThe same savory direction in a jar, two jars per pack.
• Holle Potatoes, Peas & ZucchiniAnother pea-based savory jar for building a vegetable rotation.
• Holle Spinach with PotatoesA greener savory jar for once the milder vegetables are established.
• Holle Power Parrot PouchA fruit pouch from the same resealable range.
• All organic food jarsBrowse every European baby jar and puree we stock.