Holle Apple & Banana with Spelt Puree - 190 g (2 Jars)

Holle Organic Apple and Banana with Spelt Puree, 190 g per jar, two jars, from the 6th month

Holle Organic Apple and Banana with Spelt is a smooth organic fruit and grain puree for babies from the 6th month, sold here as two 190 g jars. It is a fruit baby food jar with a cereal in it: apple at 46 percent and banana at 12 percent, with wholegrain spelt flakes and flour at 2 percent each. The apple, banana and spelt are Demeter grade, the biodynamic tier above EU Organic, and Holle declares the jar lactose free and vegan.

This is the one fruit jar in the Holle range that is not gluten free, and that is the single most important thing to know about it. Spelt is a type of wheat, which Holle states in its own footnote on the declaration, so the jar contains gluten. If your baby has not yet had a gluten-containing grain, this jar is a way of introducing one inside a familiar fruit puree rather than on its own.

The grain is there in a small quantity and in two forms: wholegrain spelt flakes at 2 percent and wholegrain spelt flour at 2 percent. Holle describes the flakes as fine, and suited to a mouth that is still sensitive. Between them they thicken the puree and give it a little body and a mild cereal note, without turning it into a porridge.

Apple is the base at 46 percent, banana follows at 12 percent, and water makes up most of the rest, with a little lemon juice concentrate last in the list. That is a more dilute recipe than Holle's fruit-only jars, which is what you would expect of a puree built to carry a grain rather than to be fruit alone. Holle states the jar is made without added sugar, footnoted to say that the ingredients contain sugar naturally.

Holle suggests it as a dessert. Because the grain is already in the jar, it is a more filling course than a plain fruit puree, which makes it useful at the end of a meal that was light, or as the sweet part of a breakfast. As a European baby food it is ready to serve rather than something you mix or dilute.

Where this jar sits in the weaning day

Holle places this one as a dessert, and that is where it works best. It is sweeter and more filling than a vegetable jar and more substantial than a fruit-only one, so it rounds off a meal rather than being the meal.

From the 6th month it is also a reasonable way to introduce a gluten grain. Guidance in most European countries is to bring gluten in during the weaning period rather than to delay it, and a jar with 4 percent spelt in a fruit base is a small, controlled amount inside something a baby is likely to accept. If gluten is genuinely new for your baby, treat this jar as the new food of that day and nothing else.

It is the wrong jar, though, if you are specifically avoiding gluten. Holle does not label this product gluten free, unlike the rest of its fruit jars, and the reason is the spelt. There is no version of this recipe without the grain.

How to serve Holle Apple and Banana with Spelt

Holle publishes no warming temperature, no warming time, no serving quantity and no opened-jar fridge life for this product, and none is invented here. The steps above are ordinary jar handling plus Holle's own note on the fineness of the spelt flakes. The storage and handling text printed on the jar in your hand governs.

Nutritional values per 100 g

This is the nutrition declaration recorded for this jar, on a per 100 g basis. It is a low-sugar jar by the standards of a fruit puree, at 6.3 g of sugars per 100 g, which is what the water content and the grain do to a fruit base.

Reproduced on the per 100 g basis in which it is declared. Holle's own product page for this jar publishes no nutrition table, so no fiber figure is shown here and none has been estimated. Holle publishes no per-serving and no per-jar panel for this product, and no per-serving figures have been calculated from the per 100 g values. The panel printed on the jar you receive is the one that governs.

What is in it

Read as a list, that is two fruits, a grain in two forms, water and a little lemon juice concentrate. The named ingredients total 62 percent, so water makes up most of the remainder. No starch, thickener, preservative or flavoring appears in the declaration.

• Apple is 46% of the jar
• Banana is 12% of the jar
• Wholegrain spelt flakes 2%
• Wholegrain spelt flour 2%
• Demeter biodynamic fruit and grain
• EU organic certified
• No added sugar
• No starch or thickener
• Contains gluten from spelt
• Lactose free, vegan and vegetarian

How far a two-jar pack goes

Each jar holds 190 g net and this pack contains two of them, so you are buying 380 g of prepared puree in total. That is the whole of the arithmetic, because it is the only part of it that is published.

How many servings that is depends on your baby. Because the grain makes this jar more filling than a fruit-only puree, it tends to go further as a dessert than a plain fruit jar does. Holle prints no serving size for this jar, no number of portions and no feeding quantity, so any per-meal count here would be invented rather than read.

Appetite at six months varies more than any table could usefully capture, which is the other reason no portion count is offered. The two figures worth planning around are the ones above: 190 g a jar, two jars in the pack.

No portions-per-jar figure is stated here because none is published for this product. The 190 g net weight and the two-jar pack size are the confirmed figures.

Product highlights

• Organic apple, banana and spelt
• From the 6th month
• 190 g per jar
• Two jars per pack
• Wholegrain spelt, finely milled
• Demeter biodynamic certified
• EU organic certified
• No added sugar
• No added flavorings
• Contains gluten from spelt
• Lactose free and vegan
• A more filling dessert jar

Frequently asked questions

Other Holle jars and what goes with this one

• Holle Apple and Banana with Apricot Puree, 190 gThe same fruit base with no grain in it, and declared gluten free.
• Holle Apple and Plum Puree, 190 gTwo fruits only, gluten free, and a sharper jar.
• Holle Mixed Vegetables Puree, 190 gThe savory course to serve before this one as the dessert.
• Holle Potatoes, Peas and Zucchini Puree, 190 gAnother vegetable meal for the same age.
• Holle Tiger Porridge PouchFruit and grain together again, in a pouch, for a toddler.
• Holle Pelican Peach Puree PouchFruit with gluten-free oat, in a resealable pouch.

Written from Holle's own published product page for Apfel and Banane mit Dinkel, which is the source of truth for this recipe and which gives the apple 46 percent, banana 12 percent, spelt wholegrain flakes 2 percent and spelt wholegrain flour 2 percent declaration with water and lemon juice concentrate, the 6-month age, the Demeter certification, the no-added-sugar statement, the footnote that spelt is a type of wheat, the lactose-free and vegan declarations, and the note that the wholegrain flakes are fine and suited to a still-sensitive mouth. Holle does not label this product gluten free and no gluten-free claim is made here. Holle's product page publishes no nutrition table, no allergen declaration, no total Demeter percentage, no country of origin and no preparation, warming or storage figures for this jar; the per 100 g panel above is the declaration already recorded for this product, and the gaps are left open rather than filled. Age and pack size are taken from the product itself. Last reviewed 19 October 2026.