Your Ultimate Guide to The Best Infant Formula (2024)

By Anjali Shah on January 11, 2019 · Last Updated on November 11, 2021

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If you are a parent looking for the right formula for your little one, it can be hard to figure out which formula is the best. There are so many options out there — it can be really confusing! That’s where this post comes in: this is your guide to the best infant formula. You’ll learn which formulas are the best, where to buy them, and what ingredients you should always try to avoid!

If you have come across this post, you are likely a parent of a little one. You might be a new mom who is struggling with breastfeeding, a dad who is trying to do some research to alleviate the burden on his partner, or a parent who has adopted, fostered, or done surrogacy and needs a healthy alternative to breastmilk.

While there is so much pressure on new parents (“breast is best” is so prevalent in our society today), the reality is that for a variety of completely valid reasons, exclusive breastfeeding might just not be working for you and your baby. The problem is, searching for the best infant formula can be tough because there are so many options out there including organic baby formulas! That’s where this post comes in. This is your Ultimate Guide to The Best Infant Formula for your little one.

As for which is the best infant formula, my research has led me to European formulas as being the cleanest, safest options for babies.

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The Top 4 Best Infant Formulas On The Market Today

1. HiPP Dutch
2. Loulouka
3. Kendamil
4. HiPP PRE

The Top 4 Best US-Made Formulas On The Market Today

If you’re looking to buy a US formula, I’d recommend:

1. Bobbie Organic Infant Formula (the best baby formula made in the US!)
2. Baby’s Only Infant Formula (Learn More: Baby’s Only Vs. Earth’s Best)
3. Kabrita USA
4. Happy Baby

The Best Goat Milk Formulas

And if you’re looking to buy a Goat’s Milk formula, I’d recommend:Kabrita USAorHolle Goat. And you can use this guide on the best goat milk formula comparisons! If you’re trying to decide between Goat’s Milk or Cow’s Milk formula, my post comparing goat milk formula vs. cow milk formula will be helpful for you!

The Best Hypoallergenic Infant Formulas

For hypoallergenic formula, I like HiPP HA and HiPP Comfort. I’d recommend HiPP Comfort over HiPP HA for babies with more severe lactose or milk protein allergies. You also can see my post comparing all of the hypoallergenic baby formula options.

Where to Purchase the Best Infant Formula

As for where to purchase European baby formulas, I’m in personal contact with the owners of all of these companies:The Milky Box, Organic’s Best, Baby Milk Bar, Bottles & Burps, Organic Formula Shop, and Organic Baby Food,and I feel comfortable recommending them to you. (Note: Get 20% off any single pack using the code PICKYEATER20 when shopping at Bottles and Burps! Just enter it manually in the checkout process!)

So if you are a new parent struggling to find a formula you feel good about – I hope this post helped you! And If you’re a new mom feeling stressed about breastfeeding, just know that you’re not alone. I didn’t have a great experience nursing either of my two kids – breastfeeding is something that didn’t come naturally to me with either baby. I would never be that mom who could just be comfortable and carefree nursing in public – it always felt like gymnastics trying to get my baby to latch properly and painlessly and stay on without getting distracted.

I remember shedding countless tears over the excruciating pain and pressure to nurse my first baby – only to feel like a failure when I couldn’t make it work the way I envisioned it would. Eventually I realized that supplementing with formula made me a much happier and healthier mom. I realized that a baby exclusively breastfed by a stressed out, constantly crying and anxious-about-nursing mom would not be better off than a happy, positive mom who supplements with formula.And since formulas likeHiPP Dutch have such clean and amazing ingredients – I didn’t have to feel like I was feeding either of my kids “junk” instead of the “liquid gold” I was told should be their exclusive source of nutrition for their first year of life.

All of you know that I’m an advocate for healthy, all natural, whole foods. But I actually don’t believe that breast is best. Our society does not take care of new moms and new parents in the way that it should – the system isn’t set up to make “breast is best” easy and doable for many parents. In fact, the system almost works against new moms breastfeeding (case in point: no nationwide paid maternity leave policy). And for those reasons, I believe that FED is best, and that formula can be a perfectly healthy, viable and guilt-free option for your little one if needed. And believe it or not, the recent research shows that after the first month of life, for full term healthy babies, breastmilk and formula prove to be no different in terms of their long term effects!

This is all to say that if you are a new mom or a new parent choosing formula for your baby, I support you. And this post is meant to take a little bit of the stress off of new parenthood! If you have any questions about any of the formula options I’ve listed above, don’t hesitate to reach out to me – I answer every single question I get! Leave your questions in the comments below, or feel free to email me at anjali@pickyeaterblog.com.

Please note that The Picky Eater is not responsible for the quality of the formula or the experience of ordering from any of these sellers listed in this post. Personally, based on my own research, if I were buying European formula for my own child, I would feel comfortable and confident ordering it from the retailers I’ve listed above.