Hipp Organic Wheat and Milk Baby Biscuit

HiPP Organic Wheat and Milk Baby Biscuit, 180 g, from 6 months

HiPP Organic Wheat and Milk Baby Biscuit is an organic baby biscuit for babies from 6 months. The pack is 180 g, made up of 4 sachets of 45 g. It is built on organic wholewheat flour at 68 percent with skimmed milk powder and added vitamin B1, and it is designed to be used two ways: crumbled into milk or fruit puree at six months, and handed over whole for self-feeding from around eight months once first teeth appear. It contains sugar, gluten and milk.

A baby biscuit is a transitional object as much as a food. It is firm enough to hold, it softens where it meets saliva or milk, and it gives a baby who has only ever been spoon-fed something to work at themselves. That is why HiPP gives two sets of instructions for the same biscuit: crumbled, it is an ingredient; whole, it is a first finger food.

The recipe is mostly grain and dairy. Wholewheat flour at 68 percent leads the declaration, there is a further 7 percent of partially hydrolyzed wheat flour, and skimmed milk powder and a barley malt extract sit in the middle of the list with coconut oil. Added vitamin B1, the thiamine European rules require in a cereal product for babies, closes it. Every starred ingredient comes from organic farms, which the pack's own footnote states.

It is worth being plain about the sugar, because a lot of baby food is bought on the assumption that there is none. Sugar is the second ingredient in this biscuit. No no-added-sugar claim is made for it and none should be read into it. That is the ordinary trade-off with a biscuit rather than a cereal, and it is the reason HiPP's own serving guidance puts a daily limit on it.

Because of the wheat, the barley malt and the milk powder it carries gluten and milk, and the pack notes it may contain traces of mustard. So this is not an early-weaning pack. It is the biscuit for a baby who has already met wheat and dairy in something simpler and taken both well, which in practice is most babies by six months but not all of them.

Where a baby biscuit fits, and how it changes with age

At six months this is not finger food yet. HiPP's instruction at that age is to crumble two or three biscuits into a bowl and mix them with a few spoonfuls of prepared milk or fruit puree, which turns the biscuit into something closer to a cereal. That is the version to start on, and it is the one that works for a baby with no teeth and a strong gag reflex.

From around eight months, once first teeth have come through, the same biscuit becomes a whole-biscuit food for self-feeding. That is the point of buying it: a baby holding a biscuit and getting it to their own mouth is practising something a spoon cannot teach. HiPP ties the change to teeth rather than to a date, which is the right way round.

The daily limit is part of the product rather than an afterthought, and it is the sugar that drives it. HiPP's guidance is one to two biscuits a day initially, rising to two or three as your baby grows at around nine to eleven months. A biscuit is a between-meals food within that limit, not a meal and not something to leave within reach.

How to serve it, and the limits that come with it

The ages, the crumbled and whole-biscuit routes and the daily numbers are the serving guidance published for this product. They are a guide rather than a prescription, and your own baby's stage governs.

The two ways to use the same biscuit

HiPP publishes both routes for this one pack, so neither is a workaround. Which one you use is a question about your baby's teeth and their confidence with a held food, not about the biscuit.

Both routes count against the same daily number: one to two biscuits a day at the start, two to three at around nine to eleven months. Crumbling does not make the sugar go away.

What is in it

Read as a list, that is wholewheat flour, sugar, a fat, a second wheat flour, milk powder, raising agents, a barley malt extract, vanilla, an emulsifier and one added vitamin. The grain dominates at 75 percent across the two wheat flours, the vitamin B1 is the thiamine European rules require, and the sugar is the entry worth noticing.

• 68% organic wholewheat flour
• Every starred ingredient organic
• With added vitamin B1
• Vanilla extract, not flavoring
• Contains sugar
• Contains gluten
• Contains WHEAT and BARLEY
• Contains MILK
• May contain mustard traces

How far a pack goes

The pack holds 180 g of biscuits, divided into 4 sachets of 45 g so that an opened pack does not have to be finished at once. How many individual biscuits that comes to is not stated for this product, so no biscuit count is given here. What is published alongside the weight is the daily number, which is the more useful figure anyway.

What that means in practice is that the pack is paced by the daily limit rather than by its size. At one or two biscuits a day a pack lasts considerably longer than a parent used to handing over a snack would expect, and that is the intention.

The 180 g pack weight and the 4 x 45 g sachet format are taken from the product itself. No biscuit count is claimed, because none is published for this product. The serving numbers above are the published guidance.

Product highlights

• Organic baby biscuit
• From 6 months
• 180 g, 4 x 45 g sachets
• 68% organic wholewheat flour
• With skimmed milk powder
• With added vitamin B1
• Crumble into milk or puree
• Whole from 8+ months
• For first self-feeding
• 1 to 2 biscuits a day
• Contains sugar
• Contains gluten and milk
• Supervise while eating

Frequently asked questions

Other biscuits, rusks and first finger foods

• Holle Organic Baby Spelt BiscuitA spelt biscuit, as the alternative to a wheat and milk one.
• Holle Organic Spelt Baby Rusk, 200 gA rusk to hold and gnaw rather than a biscuit.
• Holle Organic Little Farm Spelt Biscuits, 100 gShaped spelt biscuits for an older baby.
• Holle Organic Crunchy Snack Millet, 25 gA puffed millet snack to hold, from 8 months.
• HiPP Organic Apple Biscuit Baby CerealThe biscuit idea as a spoon-fed cereal instead.
• All organic baby food and snacksBrowse the whole organic food and snack range.

Written from the ingredient, allergen and serving declarations published for this pack, which supply the percentages, the organic footnote, the gluten, milk and mustard advice, the crumbled and whole-biscuit routes and the daily numbers. The age and the 180 g pack weight, as 4 sachets of 45 g, are taken from the product itself. HiPP's German site publishes no product page for this biscuit, so no nutrition table, no organic control code, no preservative-free claim and no non-GMO claim is made. No biscuit count is stated for this product, so none is claimed. Sugar is the second ingredient and no no-added-sugar claim is made. A footnote on the published panel refers to organic palm oil while the ingredient list names coconut oil; the discrepancy is reported on the page rather than resolved. Last reviewed 20 October 2026.