Zebra Beet - Holle Organic Fruit Puree Pouch

Zebra Beet - Holle Organic Fruit Puree Pouch, Apple and Banana with Beetroot, 100 g, from the 6th month

Zebra Beet is a Holle organic fruit puree pouch for babies from the 6th month. It is apple and banana with beetroot juice, nothing else, in a 100 g resealable pouch. The fruit is Demeter grade, which is the biodynamic tier above EU Organic, and the pouch is gluten-free, vegan and made with no added sugar.

What makes Zebra Beet different from the rest of the range is the beetroot. It is only 10 percent of the pouch and it arrives as a juice rather than as pulp, so it reads as colour and a faint earthiness rather than as a vegetable flavour. Apple at 70 percent and banana at 20 percent carry the taste, which is why a baby who has taken apple and banana happily will usually take this without noticing the change.

That is the useful thing about it. Introducing a root vegetable on its own is a hard sell at six months, and a pouch that is nine parts familiar fruit to one part beetroot is a gentler way in. The deep red colour is also worth knowing about in advance, because it goes through a baby unchanged and can be alarming in a nappy the first time.

Everything in it is certified. The apple and banana are Demeter, Holle's biodynamic standard, and the beetroot juice is organic. Holle states the pouch carries no added sugar, no salt, no spices and no flavourings, with a footnote that it naturally contains the sugar from the fruit itself. There is no thickener, no starch and no grain in this one.

Because there is no cereal in the recipe, Zebra Beet is gluten-free and lactose-free, and Holle lists it as vegan. That matters more than it sounds at six months, when grains are usually still being introduced one at a time: a fruit pouch with no cereal in it does not use up one of those slots.

As an organic baby snack it is built for portability rather than for a meal. The pouch is shelf-stable until you open it, it needs no spoon of its own, no warming and no water, and it goes in a changing bag without a cool pack. At home it is as useful stirred into a bowl of plain porridge or yoghurt as it is on its own.

Where this pouch sits in the weaning day

From the 6th month this is a between-meals pouch rather than a meal. One 100 g pouch is a snack-sized portion of fruit, and at six months a baby is still getting the bulk of what they need from milk, so a pouch like this sits alongside that rather than replacing any of it.

It is a reasonable early pouch because the list is short and the two leading fruits are the two most babies meet first. If apple and banana have both already been given on their own and taken well, the only genuinely new thing in Zebra Beet is the beetroot juice, and it is a tenth of the pouch. That is about as small a step as a new ingredient comes.

Later on it keeps earning its place as the easy way to get something other than fruit into a fruit course. Toddlers who have decided against vegetables on a plate will often take beetroot here, where it does not look or taste like beetroot. The pouch does not change as your baby grows; what changes is whether it is the whole snack or a spoonful stirred into something else.

How to serve it, and how to store it once opened

What is in the pouch, by percentage

Three things, and the percentages tell you most of what you need to know about how it will taste. Apple is the body of it, banana is the sweetness and the thickness, and the beetroot juice is colour and a background note.

The beetroot juice component is itself beetroot juice with a little lemon juice, the beetroot being about 95 percent of that 10 percent. Lemon juice is there as the only acidity regulator in the pouch. Percentages are Holle's own for this product.

What is in it

• Three ingredients in total
• 70% apple, 20% banana
• Beetroot juice 10%
• Demeter fruit, organic beetroot
• No added sugar
• No salt, spices or flavourings
• No cereal, so gluten-free
• Lactose-free and vegan
• No thickener or starch

What one 100 g pouch gives you

A pouch is a portion, so there is no yield to calculate. The question is how it fits a day rather than how far it stretches.

Holle does not publish a portion count for this pouch, so the splits above are arithmetic on the 100 g pack size rather than a manufacturer figure. The fridge life is Holle's own: 2 days after opening. A pouch your baby has fed from directly should not be kept.

Product highlights

• Holle organic fruit pouch
• From the 6th month
• 100 g resealable pouch
• Apple, banana and beetroot
• Demeter biodynamic fruit
• No added sugar
• No salt or flavourings
• Gluten-free and lactose-free
• Vegan
• Three ingredients only
• Shelf-stable until opened
• Keeps 2 days opened

Frequently asked questions

Other Holle pouches and what goes with this one

• Power Parrot - Pear and Apple with SpinachThe other 6-month pouch in the range, pear and apple led with spinach.
• Apple Ant - Apple with Banana and PearThree mild fruits and nothing else, a simple place to start.
• Fennel Frog - Pear with Apple and FennelPear and apple with fennel, another vegetable-leaning pouch.
• Veggie Bunny - Carrot and Sweet Potato with PeasA vegetable pouch rather than a fruit one, for savoury days.
• Pear Pony - Pear, Peach and Raspberries with SpeltPear and peach with a little wholegrain spelt, which carries gluten.
• Red Bee - Apple with StrawberryApple and strawberry, from the 8th month.

Written from the ingredient, allergen and storage declarations printed on this pouch, checked against Holle's own published product page for Zebra Beet - Apple and banana with beetroot. The age and the 100 g pack size are taken from the product itself. Portion splits are arithmetic on that pack size, and are identified as such, because Holle publishes no portion count for this pouch. Last reviewed 17 October 2026.