HiPP Organic Crunchy Muesli - 200g

HiPP Organic Crunchy Muesli, 200 g, from the 15th month

HiPP Organic Crunchy Muesli is an organic children's muesli for children from the 15th month, in a 200 g pack. It is built on a 74 percent organic grain mixture of wholemeal flakes and flours with banana flakes, a freeze-dried fruit preparation and added vitamin B1. There is no added sugar and no added flavor. A bowl is 35 g of muesli with 100 ml of milk, and HiPP recommends the morning for it.

The crunch is the selling point and the reason the shapes exist. HiPP makes this one with crunchy ducks and flowers mixed through the flakes, which gives a bowl two textures rather than one: soft flakes that take up the milk and firmer shapes that hold their bite. At 15 months that contrast is interesting rather than difficult, and it is part of why a child will keep going with a bowl.

The grain base is unusually broad. The 74 percent wholemeal cereal flakes and flours are made up of wheat, oats, barley, spelt, rye and millet, and there are three further flours alongside them: wheat flour, rice flour and corn flour. That is nine cereal components in one pack, five of them gluten-bearing. It is a pack for a child who has already met grains rather than one who is meeting them.

The fruit side is banana flakes with a freeze-dried fruit preparation of strawberries, raspberries and carrot juice concentrate, which is where HiPP's description of banana and strawberry as main ingredients comes from. There is also cocoa powder in the declaration, in a small quantity and late in the list, which is worth knowing if you are holding cocoa back.

On sugar HiPP is specific: no sugar is added, and the ingredients contain sugar by nature. The sweetness in a bowl comes from the banana flakes and the fruit preparation rather than from anything put in. HiPP also states the muesli is rich in vitamin B1, which is important for the nervous system and which is legally required in children's mueslis.

As a European children's muesli this is a breakfast pack first, though HiPP presents its mueslis as working for a mid-morning or afternoon snack too. It is made to the EU organic standard from ingredients HiPP describes as valuable and strictly tested.

Where this one sits in a child's day

HiPP names the morning as the recommended time of day for this pack, and the composition agrees. A 74 percent grain bowl with fruit in it is a breakfast rather than an evening meal, and the crunch works better at the start of the day than at the end of it.

HiPP also describes its mueslis as suitable not only for breakfast but as a snack in the morning or the afternoon, which is a reasonable second use. A muesli is dry, it keeps, and 35 g in a bowl is a small enough portion to sit between meals without displacing one.

What this pack is not is an introduction to grains. Nine cereal components arrive together, five of them carrying gluten, and spelt is itself a type of wheat. By 15 months most children have met the common cereals singly, which is what makes a pack like this straightforward. If yours has not, the order matters more than the convenience does.

How to prepare HiPP Crunchy Muesli

Is this the right muesli for your child?

With a nine-grain pack the question is less about age than about which grains your child has already met. This is how we would read it.

Ages on this page are the ages carried by this product. Always introduce a new food when your child is well, and raise any family history of food allergy with your pediatrician.

What is in it

The allergy note as it stands on this product: contains spelt and spelt products, contains barley and barley products, contains gluten-containing cereals and gluten-containing cereal products, contains oats and oat products, contains rye and rye derivatives, contains wheat and wheat derivatives. May contain traces of milk and milk derivatives, soybean and soybean derivatives, and mustard and mustard products.

Read plainly, that is a six-cereal wholemeal flake and flour base at 74 percent, three more flours, banana, a strawberry and raspberry preparation, a little cocoa and one added vitamin. No sugar, no flavoring and no preservative is added.

• 74% organic grain mixture
• Six cereals in the flake base
• Banana flakes and berry fruit
• Crunchy duck and flower shapes
• No added sugar
• No added flavor
• Rich in vitamin B1
• EU organic certified
• Contains gluten and cocoa

How far a 200 g pack goes

Both numbers are HiPP's own here, so the division is straightforward. The pack is 200 g and a bowl takes 35 g, which comes to about five bowls per pack, each made up with 100 ml of milk.

A dry muesli has no fluid yield of its own, so bowls is the measure that means anything. The arithmetic gives 5.7 bowls exactly, which is five full bowls and most of a sixth, so treat about five as the planning figure and expect a little over.

The 200 g pack size and the 35 g and 100 ml figures are HiPP's own for this product. The bowl count and the milk total are those figures divided and multiplied, not separate measurements. A tablespoon varies, so treat about 6 tablespoons as a guide to the 35 g rather than a substitute for it. We have not been able to source a verified nutrition table per 100 g for this pack, so none is printed on this page.

Product highlights

• Organic children's muesli
• From the 15th month
• 200 g pack
• 74% organic grain mixture
• Wheat, oat, barley, spelt, rye, millet
• Banana flakes and berries
• Crunchy shapes through the flakes
• No added sugar
• No added flavor
• Rich in vitamin B1
• About 5 bowls per pack
• Contains gluten and cocoa

Frequently asked questions

Other HiPP mueslis and what goes with this one

• HiPP Organic Berry Muesli, 200 gThe same 200 g format and 35 g bowl, berry-led, from 12 months.
• HiPP Organic Breakfast Rings, 135 gThe same 15 month stage, 88 percent cereals, in ring shapes.
• HiPP Organic Fruits and Flakes CerealA fruit muesli HiPP places from the 10th month.
• HiPP Crunchy Dinos Wild Berry, 300 gA crunchy muesli in dinosaur shapes for older children.
• HiPP Favourite Stars, 30 gA grain snack in star shapes, from 12 months.
• HiPP Organic Baby Bircher Muesli, 250 gThe baby end of the range, from the 6th month.