HiPP Organic Multifruit + Vitamin C Juice for 6 months and older - 500ml

HiPP Organic Multifruit and Vitamin C Juice, 500 ml, from the 6th month

HiPP Organic Multifruit + Vitamin C is an organic multifruit juice drink for babies from the 6th month, in a 500 ml glass bottle. It is a European baby drink made from organically produced ingredients, with no added sugar, no preservatives and added vitamin C at 10 mg per 100 ml. HiPP describes it as mild and low in acid, and the bottle suits older children and adults as well as babies.

A multifruit drink is the one juice most households already understand, and this is that idea made for a baby palate. The blend is sweet rather than sharp, which is the point of HiPP calling it low in acid: fruit acids are what make a juice unpleasant for a baby who has only just started on drinks other than milk. The sweetness is the fruit's own, because no sugar is added to this bottle.

It is a drink rather than a food, and it belongs in the drinks part of the day. From the 6th month a baby who is eating solids starts needing fluid alongside the meal, and a mild juice is one of the things that can sit in that slot. It does not replace a milk feed and it does not replace water, which stays the everyday drink.

The nutritional reason HiPP adds vitamin C is worth understanding, because it is not only about the vitamin itself. Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system, and it also increases the absorption of iron from a meal. Iron from plant foods is harder for the body to take up than iron from meat, so a vitamin C source served with a cereal or a vegetable meal genuinely helps. That is the authorized wording for this nutrient and nothing beyond it is claimed here.

The bottle itself is glass, which HiPP gives a recyclability of over 90 percent, and the product carries environmental and sustainability marking from HiPP's partnership with NABU, the German nature conservation union. This is also a gluten-free drink, so it suits a household avoiding gluten.

Where a juice fits in a baby's day

From the 6th month onward, as solid meals start to replace milk feeds one at a time, a baby needs something to drink with the meal. Water covers that need completely, and a mild juice is an addition to it rather than a substitute for it. The sensible way to use a bottle like this is with a meal, in a measured amount, rather than as something a baby sips from through the afternoon.

The one place a juice earns its keep nutritionally is next to an iron-bearing meal. A cereal, a lentil or a vegetable dish carries iron in a form the body takes up poorly on its own, and the vitamin C in this bottle increases that absorption. Serving the juice with the meal rather than between meals is what makes that work.

HiPP puts no upper age on it, and the product is described as suitable for babies from the 6th month and for adults. In practice that means one bottle covers a toddler and the rest of the family, which is part of why a 500 ml format exists rather than a single-serve one.

How to serve it

Nutrition per 100 ml

This is the panel as it stands for this product. A juice drink is mostly water and fruit sugar, which is why the fat and protein figures are close to nothing and the carbohydrate figure is almost entirely sugar from the fruit.

The sugars shown are the fruit's own. No sugar is added to this product, and HiPP states the ingredients naturally contain sugar. Figures are averages, as nutrition panels on fruit products always are.

What is in it

What the product does state about itself is mostly about what is absent: no added sugar, no preservatives, no gluten. The sweetness is fruit sugar and the one addition is the vitamin.

• Organic multifruit juice drink
• From the 6th month
• No added sugar
• No preservatives
• Gluten-free
• With added vitamin C
• Mild and low in acid
• Glass bottle, over 90% recyclable
• Suitable for adults as well

How much drink a bottle holds

A juice needs no preparation, so the yield is simply the volume in the bottle. There is no powder to measure and no water to add, which makes this the one figure on the page that needs no arithmetic beyond a unit conversion.

How many servings that comes to depends on the amount you pour, and no published serving size for this bottle could be sourced, so we have not divided the volume into a serving count. Pour what suits your child and the bottle will tell you how far it goes.

The 500 ml volume is the size carried by this product. The fluid-ounce figure is that volume converted and rounded, not a separate measurement.

Product highlights

• Organic multifruit juice drink
• From the 6th month
• 500 ml glass bottle
• With added vitamin C
• 10 mg vitamin C per 100 ml
• No added sugar
• No artificial preservatives
• Gluten-free
• Mild and low in acid
• Over 90% recyclable glass
• Suitable for the whole family
• European baby drink

Frequently asked questions

Other HiPP drinks and what goes with this one

• HiPP Organic Fruits + Iron Juice, 500 mlThe same bottle size with iron added as well as vitamin C, from the 8th month.
• HiPP Organic Mild Apple JuiceA single-fruit juice HiPP places from 4 months, in 200 ml and 500 ml.
• HiPP Organic Apple and Grape Juice, 500 mlA two-fruit juice in the same 500 ml glass bottle.
• HiPP Organic Baby Bircher Muesli, 250 gA fruit and grain breakfast cereal from the 6th month.
• HiPP Organic Fine Fruits Milk Cereal Porridge, 250 gA milk cereal from the 6th month, the same age as this juice.
• HiPP HiPPiS Plum and Blackcurrant in Pear PureeAn all-fruit pouch from the 6th month, gluten-free.