HiPP Bio Combiotik

It is HiPP's name for two things these formulas add: galacto-oligosaccharides, a prebiotic, and the lactic culture Limosilactobacillus fermentum CECT5716, both listed on the packs.

HiPP's UK site sells its formulas as HiPP Organic First Infant Milk, Follow On Milk and Growing Up Milk, with no Combiotic in their names and no stage numbers. This page covers the German, Dutch and English export Combiotik boxes, which are the ones milkatlas has records for.

No. HiPP says moving on is possible but not required, and the NHS says first infant formula is the only formula a baby needs in the first year.

The Dutch Stage 1, 2 and 3, and the German PRE, Stage 1, both Stage 2 boxes and Stage 3: Organic Life Start, our partner retailer, sells and ships them, and this site earns a commission. None of them is sold under US rules: sellers import them from Europe.

HiPP sells a separate recipe in each country and gives no reason for the difference on its product pages. It describes the starch in the German Stage 1 as what makes that formula creamier and more filling, which is its own claim about its own product, not the result of a trial.

No. HiPP's Dutch site lists no PRE; the Dutch Stage 1 has lactose as its only carbohydrate, as the German PRE does.

On every value this site records, their panels match per 100 ml, and both take a 4.3 g scoop for every 30 ml of water. They are made for different markets, so use the scoop and the chart from the pack in your hand.

In Germany, Kindermilch 1+ from one year and 2+ from two years; in the Netherlands, Junior from two years. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the European Food Safety Authority both say most toddlers do not need a toddler milk at all, and whole cow's milk from the first birthday is the usual next step.