Bonacibo

Bonacibo Pouches: Adult Chicken & Beef review

Name: Bonacibo Pouches: Adult Chicken & Beef
Brand: Bonacibo

46/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

One chicken and beef idea in an adult pouch and a puppy pouch. Only 4% each of chicken and beef is promised inside a broad meat category. That naming, more than the numbers, is why both sit in our Average band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat more readily from a soft single-serve pouch
Owners who want the grain identified: it is wheat flour
A puppy and a grown dog fed side by side, a pouch for each
Dogs that need help taking on water, with moisture at 82% in the adult pouch
A dosed panel, every trace element given a figure per kilo

Worth watching

Chicken and beef at 4% each inside a category term, so neither pouch supports an elimination diet
Wheat flour, which a wheat-sensitive dog needs to avoid
Vegetable protein extracts lift the protein figure without matching meat protein
Each pouch holds 100 g, so a medium or large dog gets through a great many a day

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

46/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

One pouch is for puppies and one for adults, sizes unstated. A 15kg adult would need more than ten a day as a whole diet, so they suit a small dog or a topper better.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Adult Chicken 46.0
Puppy Chicken 45.0

All two Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The naming puts both pouches well below the typical wet food; the analysis itself is unremarkable more than alarming.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives82%Any warm-blooded land animal, and the mix can change from batch to batch.
From chicken, from beefno less than 4% eachThe whole of what the label commits to.
Cereals (wheat flour)Named, which deserves credit. Also a common intolerance grain.
Vegetable protein extractsNo plant named.
Vitamins, minerals

Taurine at 233 mg/kg with choline chloride, glycine, folic acid, vitamins D3, E and B1, and dosed trace elements including sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives [82% (from chicken no less than 4%, from beef no less than 4%)], Cereals (Wheat Flour), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Vitamins, Minerals.

Against the range

Meat and animal derivatives: 82%; 73% in the puppy pouch.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 22.8%; 12.5% in the puppy pouch.
Energy: 73 kcal per 100g; The lighter of the two.

The pouch for a grown dog, lighter and with the bigger animal declaration.

Both pouches rest on meat and animal derivatives, 82% in the adult and 73% in the puppy, with chicken and beef each guaranteed at no less than 4%. The cereal is named as wheat flour, and vegetable protein extracts follow. Neither label declares calories.

The added panels are dosed line by line, taurine included. The puppy pouch adds vegetable oil and is dosed harder for growth.

Price and value

Both the adult pouch and the puppy pouch hold 100 g.

As a guide, an adult dog of 15kg in moderate condition needs about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That works out at roughly 1154 grams of the adult pouch, more than ten pouches in a day. Fed as the whole diet these suit a small dog far better than a big one, and plenty of owners use them as a topper over a dry food instead.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

72.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

38.9%

Fat

22.2%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

13.9%

Carbs

22.8%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

82%

Added water

10.8%

Carbs

6.1%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size