Bonacibo

Bonacibo Puppy Dry: Lamb & Rice review

Name: Bonacibo Puppy Dry: Lamb & Rice
Brand: Bonacibo

67/100Good

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Flavour

A three-recipe growth range in our Good band, built on dried meat proteins that keep their printed share through cooking. Anchovy runs through every bag for marine omega 3. The doses are published down to the joint support.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies of every size, toy to giant
Owners who want meat in concentrated form at the top of the list
Pups that benefit from marine omegas: anchovy meal and oil in each recipe
Joint support from the start, glucosamine and chondroitin on every label
Readers of small print. Vitamin, trace mineral and prebiotic doses are all published

Worth watching

No moisture figure, so our dry matter numbers rest on an assumed 8%
No calcium figure, though the range is offered up to giant breeds
Chicken oil and anchovy in all three, so none fits a strict chicken free or fish free plan
Maize high on every list

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

How this scores

How we score

67/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Set the daily amount from the growth chart against expected adult weight, and for a big pup get the calcium figure from Bonacibo before planning growth.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Lamb 67.0
High Energy 66.0
With Chicken 63.8

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Each recipe finishes a little clear of the middle of the puppy field, held back by blanks in the analysis and not by what goes into the bag.

What's in it

Dehydrated lamb protein29%
Hydrolysed lamb protein21%Broken into smaller fragments, easy to absorb. Half the label is lamb in one form or another.
Baldo rice18%Kind to a young digestion.
Maize
Refined chicken oilSo lamb leads without making it chicken free.
Anchovy meal, anchovy oilFish is here too.
Brewer's dried yeast, carob, nucleotide yeast protein, dried beet pulp
Minerals, mannan oligosaccharides, seaweed, psyllium
Blueberry powder, yucca extract, marigold powder

Vitamins including E at 400 mg/kg and C at 200 mg/kg, sulphate and chelated zinc, selenite, and glucosamine with chondroitin at 700 mg/kg.

Chicken oil and anchovy mean this lamb recipe is neither chicken free nor fish free.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated Lamb Protein (29%), Hydrolized Lamb Protein (21%), Baldo Rice (18%), Maize, Refined Chicken Oil, Anchovy Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Anchovy Oil, Carob, Nucleotide Yeast Protein, Dried Beet Pulp, Minerals, Prebiotic Mannan Oligo Saccarides, Seaweed, Blueberry Powder, Yucca Extract, Psyllium, Marigold Powder.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb, dehydrated and hydrolysed; Chicken leads the other two.
Chicken liver: None; Hydrolysed chicken liver in the other two.
Chondroitin: 700 mg/kg; 800 in High Energy.

The pick for a pup that does better on lamb, the highest scorer of the three.

All three lead on a dehydrated meat protein, so the printed share reaches the kibble almost intact, and protein lands at 30.0% or better on every label. Baldo rice at 18% and maize make up the starch, and anchovy appears as meal and oil throughout, the lamb recipe included.

Every label doses glucosamine, chondroitin, vitamin E at 400 mg/kg and vitamin C at 200 mg/kg. None declares moisture or calcium, so the dry matter figures here assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

361.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

30%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

40%

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

56.2%

Carbs

33.5%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

6.1%

Other

Pricing & size