Review: Only Organic Strawberry Vanilla & Spelt Biscuits
Only Organic Strawberry Vanilla & Spelt Biscuits are marketed as organic and naturally sweetened, but like most baby biscuits they’re mostly refined carbs with fruit juice concentrate and only small amounts of actual fruit.
Only Organic Strawberry Vanilla & Spelt Biscuits are another classic example of baby biscuits that sound healthier than they really are. They’re marketed as organic, naturally sweetened with fruit and enriched with iron, but when we look a little closer, they follow the same pattern as most commercial baby biscuits — mostly refined carbohydrates with fruit juice concentrate doing the sweetening.
What’s In It?
Wholemeal Spelt Flour* (Wheat) (22%), Semi-wholemeal Wheat Flour*, Apple Juice Concentrate*, Wheat Starch*, Rice Flour*, Sunflower Oil*, Strawberry Puree* (5%), Dehydrated Beetroot Juice*, Raising Agent (Sodium Carbonates), Natural Strawberry Flavour, Natural Vanilla Flavour, Mineral (Iron).
Certified Organic Ingredients
Cost
$5 per 100g pack, which makes them quite an expensive snack option for what they are.
Allergens
Contains wheat and gluten. May contain soy and milk.
Nutrition Info
Per 100g, these provide 1730kJ of energy, 6.9g protein, 12g total fat (with 1g saturated fat), 67g carbohydrate and 13g sugar. Sodium sits at 140mg per 100g.
Fibre is not listed on the panel, which is already a bit of a flag for a product marketed to little ones.
Like most baby biscuits, these are primarily a carbohydrate-based snack. Despite being “naturally sweetened with fruit,” this comes from apple juice concentrate, which is essentially just another source of added sugar.
They only contain 5% strawberry puree, so despite the flavouring and marketing, there’s very little actual fruit here.
They are also marketed as being enriched with iron. While it’s always nice to see iron added, the amount is usually quite small (in this case 21mg per 100g or 3mg per serving) and it’s plant-based (non-haem) iron, which isn’t well absorbed by the body, so it’s not something we’d be relying on as a meaningful iron source.
At 13g sugar per 100g, this sits more in toddler territory rather than something we’d be recommending regularly for younger babies.
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