HiPP Organic 100% Rice Grain Porridge, 200 g, from 4 months
HiPP Organic 100% Rice Grain Porridge is a single-grain organic baby cereal for babies from 4 months. The dry mix is 100% organic rice flour with added vitamin B1 and nothing else, it carries no added sugar, and HiPP declares it gluten free. It comes as a powder in a 200 g box, and you make each bowl up fresh with infant formula, with half milk and half water, or as a milk-free cereal and fruit porridge.
A two-ingredient cereal is the plainest thing in the HiPP range, and that is the reason to buy it. There is one grain in the box, so there is one new food on the spoon. If something disagrees with your baby in the first weeks of solids, a single-grain baby cereal is the only kind that tells you what it was.
Rice is also the gentlest of the grains to start on. HiPP processes the rice flour so the starch is already broken down, which is why the porridge thickens in a minute without cooking and why it sits easily. It has a mild, almost neutral taste, so it carries whatever you put with it rather than competing with it, and that makes it a useful base once fruit and vegetable purees come into the day.
The one addition is vitamin B1, the thiamine European rules require in a baby cereal. HiPP states that vitamin B1 matters for carbohydrate and energy metabolism and for the nervous system. Beyond the rice and that vitamin there is nothing in the box: no sugar added, no milk powder, no flavoring and no colorings.
Because there is no milk in it, the liquid is yours to choose, and that is what makes one box go a long way. Made up with 200 ml of prepared infant milk it becomes a formula porridge. Made up with 100 ml of whole milk and 100 ml of water it becomes a half-milk porridge. Made up with water, a portion of fruit or vegetable puree and a teaspoon of oil it becomes the milk-free version. As a European baby cereal it is the box you reach for when you want to keep the meal simple.
4+ monthsFrom 4 months
200 gBox of dry flakes
About 10Milk portions per box
1 grainRice flour only
Where this one sits in the weaning day
This is a starting cereal, which is exactly what a mixed muesli or a seven-grain flake is not. At 4 months a baby is meeting the first foods that are not milk, and the sensible way through that is one new thing at a time with a few days between. A box holding rice and vitamin B1 is as close to one new thing as a cereal gets.
It also works later, and for a different reason. Once the day has several foods in it, a neutral single grain is the thing you add a vegetable or a fruit to rather than a competing flavor. Parents who have moved on to mixed cereals often keep a box of plain rice in the cupboard for exactly that.
What it is not is a complete meal on its own. There is no milk powder, no calcium and no iron added here, so the nutrition in the bowl is whatever the liquid brings. Prepared with infant milk it is a milk feed thickened into a spoonable meal; prepared with water and fruit it is a cereal and fruit course alongside the milk feeds rather than instead of one.
If your baby has already met rice on its own
Then the next step is a second single grain rather than a blend. HiPP's Organic 100% Oats Porridge, 200 g is the usual one, and it is the point at which gluten enters the diet. A mixed cereal such as Organic Multigrain Cereal with Buckwheat makes sense after each of its grains has been met singly.
How to prepare HiPP 100% Rice Porridge
The rules that apply to every preparation
Follow HiPP's preparation and dosage instructions, because they are what the nutrition figures on the box are built on. Let the liquid cool to approximately 50 degrees Celsius before it meets the powder, since liquid that is too hot makes the flour harder to dissolve rather than easier. Make every bowl fresh, always spoon-feed it, and never heat the prepared porridge in a microwave, which HiPP warns carries a risk of scalding.
HiPP also notes that contact with saliva thins the porridge, which is why a bowl should not be kept back and offered again later.
50 °CCool the liquid to this
20 g3 to 4 tbsp, milk routes
12 g2 to 3 tbsp, milk-free
200 mlLiquid, formula route
1
Boil, then cool
Boil fresh drinking water, or the milk and water together on the half-milk route, and let it come down to approximately 50 degrees Celsius before you use it.
2
Measure the powder first
Level tablespoons into a plate or bowl before any liquid goes in: 3 to 4 tablespoons, 20 grams, for the two milk routes, or 2 to 3 tablespoons, 12 grams, for the milk-free cereal and fruit version.
3
Pour the liquid onto the powder
Add the cooled liquid to the rice flakes rather than tipping the flakes into the liquid, and stir it through. That is the order HiPP writes and it lumps less.
4
Let it swell
Leave it standing until it reaches the consistency you want. Rice flour takes the liquid up quickly, so a looser bowl means serving sooner and a thicker one means waiting a minute longer.
5
Add fruit and oil, on the milk-free route
The milk-free preparation takes about 100 g of fruit or vegetable puree and one teaspoon of HiPP Organic Rapeseed Oil. The two milk routes do not call for oil.
6
Check the temperature, then spoon-feed
Check the temperature yourself before the bowl reaches your baby. Spoon-feed the porridge, and make each meal fresh rather than keeping a prepared bowl for later.
The preparations, with HiPP's own quantities
| Prepared with | Liquid | Liquid | Porridge | Also add |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infant formula | Prepared infant milk, cooled to approx. 50 °C | approx. 200 ml | 3-4 tbsp (20 g) | Nothing |
| Half milk and water | 100 ml whole milk with 100 ml water, boiled then cooled to approx. 50 °C | 200 ml total | 3-4 tbsp (20 g) | Nothing |
| Milk-free, with fruit | Water, boiled then cooled to approx. 50 °C, plus approx. 100 g fruit or vegetable puree | 100 ml | 2-3 tbsp (12 g) | 1 tsp rapeseed oil |
| HA formula | HiPP states that preparation as an HA porridge is possible when you use an HA milk | as the formula | 3-4 tbsp (20 g) | Nothing |
Quantities are HiPP's own, as printed for this box. Tablespoon measures are a guide to the gram weights beside them rather than a substitute for them. On the half-milk route HiPP notes that the added water is there to bring the protein content of cow's milk down to a level suitable for a baby, so the water is part of the recipe and not a way of stretching it.
Do not use a microwave. HiPP states a scalding risk. Check the box and inner bag are intact before first use, close the pack after every use, keep it dry at room temperature, and use the contents within 3 to 4 weeks of opening.
Formula, half milk or milk-free: which should you use?
All of these are HiPP's own instructions for the same box, so none of them is a workaround. The question is which liquid suits your baby this month, and how far you want one 200 g box to go.
| Route | Choose it when | Dairy | Porridge per bowl | Bowls per box |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infant formula | Your baby is on a formula and you want the cereal to carry it | From the formula you use | 20 g | about 10 |
| Half milk and water | Your family already uses whole milk in your baby's cooked food | Contains cow's milk | 20 g | about 10 |
| Milk-free with fruit | You want a milk-free bowl, or a fruit-led course beside the milk feeds | None added by this route | 12 g | about 16 |
Milk-free cereal and fruit porridge is HiPP's own name for the water route. It describes the way you make the bowl up, with water, puree and oil in place of milk. Milk does not appear in this box's ingredient list, and the box itself is the thing to check before you rely on that.
What is in it
Two ingredients, and HiPP declares it gluten free
The box holds organic rice flour and vitamin B1. HiPP declares this porridge gluten free, and rice is not one of the gluten cereals. No milk ingredient is declared. Read the allergen panel printed on your own box before preparing a feed, because HiPP prints the declaration that applies to the pack in your hand.
On the label
Ingredients and more
100% rice flour*, vitamin B1.
* from organic production.
Reproduced from the ingredient declaration this listing publishes for this box. The panel printed on the box you receive is the one that governs.
No added sugar: HiPP states that sugar is not added to its cereal porridges. Rice flour contains carbohydrate naturally, which is a different thing from sugar having been put in.
The gluten-free statement is HiPP's own for this product and is carried by this listing. HiPP's sister product, the 100% oats porridge, is the opposite case and declares gluten from oats, so the two boxes are not interchangeable on that point.
Read as a list, that is one organic grain and one vitamin. There is nothing added to sweeten, color, flavor or preserve it, and nothing added to thicken it beyond what the rice itself does.
- 100% organic rice flour
- With added vitamin B1
- No added sugar
- No added colorings
- No added flavorings
- No added preservatives
- No milk ingredient declared
- Gluten free, as HiPP declares it
How many bowls a 200 g box makes
A dry cereal has no fluid yield, so the number worth having is how many bowls you get. It depends on the route, because the two milk preparations take nearly twice the powder the milk-free one does.
| Preparation | Porridge per bowl | Arithmetic | Bowls per box |
|---|---|---|---|
| With infant formula, or half milk and water | 20 g | 200 ÷ 20 | about 10 |
| Milk-free, with fruit or vegetable puree | 12 g | 200 ÷ 12 | about 16 |
So a 200 g box is roughly ten milk porridges, or about sixteen bowls if you are making it up with water and puree. At one cereal meal a day that is a week and a half from a box on the milk route.
Both figures are calculated from the gram weights HiPP prints for each preparation and the 200 g pack size, and the arithmetic is shown so you can check it. A level tablespoon varies between hands, so treat the bowl count as a planning figure rather than a promise.
Product highlights
- Organic baby cereal
- From 4 months
- 200 g box
- 100% organic rice flour
- Single grain, one new food
- Gluten free, as declared
- No added sugar
- With added vitamin B1
- No milk ingredient declared
- Four preparation routes
- About 10 milk portions
- Thickens without cooking
Frequently asked questions
How do I prepare HiPP 100% Rice Porridge?
With prepared infant milk: approximately 200 ml cooled to about 50 degrees Celsius, stirred into 3 to 4 tablespoons, 20 g, of porridge. As a half-milk porridge: 100 ml whole milk with 100 ml water, boiled then cooled to about 50 degrees, into the same 20 g. Milk-free: 100 ml boiled and cooled water into 2 to 3 tablespoons, 12 g, plus about 100 g of fruit or vegetable puree and a teaspoon of rapeseed oil. Let it swell, check the temperature, spoon-feed, and do not use a microwave.
From what age can my baby have it?
From 4 months, which is the age on this product. It is a single-grain cereal with no milk ingredient, which is why it is one of the boxes that can come this early.
Is it gluten free?
HiPP declares this porridge gluten free, and the ingredient panel is rice flour and vitamin B1. Read the allergen panel on your own box before preparing a feed.
Does it contain milk powder?
No milk ingredient is declared for this box. That is why HiPP's own third route is a milk-free cereal and fruit porridge: any dairy in the bowl is the liquid you choose to add.
Can I prepare it with water alone?
HiPP's water route is not water alone. It is 100 ml of boiled and cooled water with about 100 g of fruit or vegetable puree and a teaspoon of rapeseed oil. Plain water with nothing else is not one of the preparations given for this box.
How many portions does a 200 g box make?
About ten on the milk routes, at 20 g of porridge a bowl, and about sixteen on the milk-free route, which takes 12 g. The arithmetic is set out in the portions table on this page.
Does it contain added sugar?
No sugar is added. HiPP states that the addition of sugar is avoided in its cereal porridges. The carbohydrate in the bowl comes from the rice.
Why does my box say 5 months when this page says 4?
Both boxes hold the same product. German labelling rules do not permit a 4-month age indication on baby cereals, so the German box prints 5 months where the English export box prints 4. The recipe, the ingredients and the nutrition are identical and only the printed number differs.
Other HiPP cereals and what goes with this one
- HiPP Organic 100% Oats Porridge, 200 gThe other single-grain box, and the usual second grain. Contains gluten.
- HiPP Organic Rapeseed OilNamed in the milk-free preparation, one teaspoon per bowl.
- HiPP Organic Corn Cereal, 250 gAnother single grain that HiPP marks gluten free, also from 4 months.
- HiPP Organic Multigrain Cereal with BuckwheatCorn, wholegrain oat and buckwheat together, once the grains have been met singly.
- Holle Organic Wholegrain Rice Baby PorridgeA wholegrain rice cereal, as the other brand's version of the same idea.
- HiPP Organic Baby Bircher Muesli, 250 gA fruit and four-grain muesli for later, from the 6th month.
Written from this product's own ingredient declaration and HiPP's own preparation and dosage instructions for this box, together with HiPP's published 200 g pack for Bio-Getreidebrei 100% Reis. The age and the pack size are taken from the product itself. No claim is made about added sugar beyond HiPP's own statement that sugar is not added, and no nutrition table is reproduced because this listing does not carry one for this box. Last reviewed 14 October 2026.
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