HiPP goat's milk formula

In the Netherlands HiPP sells a goat's milk Stage 1 from birth and a Stage 2 from six months, both in organic tins. A Stage 3 tin is no longer on HiPP's Dutch site, though its label still is.17

In Germany HiPP sells a goat's milk PRE from birth and a Stage 2 after six months, in boxes. They are close to the Dutch Stage 1 and Stage 2 without matching them: seven rows differ on the first pair and eight on the second, chloride by the most, and the German boxes print a linoleic acid row and a sugars row the Dutch tins leave out.91028

The milk. The protein comes from goat's milk and goat's milk powder, with no added whey; the German boxes and the French ingredient list on each Dutch tin call the goat's milk skimmed, the Dutch list does not.29

The packs add galacto-oligosaccharides but no lactic culture, and they are organic, with the EU organic logo.29

What does not change is the sugar: lactose is the only carbohydrate on every goat pack, at the same figure the cow's milk tins print, which has a page of its own.

No. Every Dutch tin says in bold that its proteins are similar to those of cow's milk and that it must not be used when a cow's milk protein allergy exists or is suspected, and HiPP's site for health professionals says the same.2873

HiPP's German boxes word it more softly. They say the formula contains proteins similar to cow's milk proteins and traces of cow's milk, and that with an existing or suspected cow's milk protein allergy it should be used only after talking to the pediatrician.910

The NHS says goat's milk formula is not less likely to cause allergies than cow's milk formula and is not suitable for a baby with a cow's milk allergy.4

HiPP makes the A2 claim on the packs too, and what it means and what has been tested is a longer answer than a droplet on a box.

Stage 1 and the German PRE are the infant formulas, from birth, with a feeding chart by age. Stage 2 is a follow-on formula from six months with twice the iron per 100 ml, and Stage 3 is labelled from the twelfth month, to drink from a cup.287

The NHS says there is no evidence that switching formula does any good or harm, and a first formula can stay the main drink through the first year.4 The Stage 1 to Stage 2 step is measured here, and moving across from a cow's milk formula here.