Bosch

Bosch Adult: Fish & Potato review

Name: Bosch Adult: Fish & Potato
Brand: Bosch

46.2/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

A pair of cereal-led kibbles where the flavour on the bag is an accent. Poultry does the real meat work, and rice, barley, maize and millet carry the rest. They sit in our Average band and remain gentle, workmanlike foods, with green-lipped mussel a welcome sight on a mainstream label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Bigger dogs or several dogs, with 15kg bags
Ageing joints, as green-lipped mussel extract is in both
A gentler, moderate-fat bowl, fat at 10.5% in both
Sensitive guts, given the beet pulp, prebiotic yeast and chicory

Worth watching

Fish and lamb are only 4% each, with poultry the main meat
Poultry never names the bird, so no use for an elimination diet
Fish in both, the lamb included

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

How this scores

How we score

46.2/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, and calcium is declared at a comfortable adult level. The bag asks 205 grams for a 15kg dog; check the waistline from there.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Fish 46.2
Lamb 44.7

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Modest protein and a heavy cereal load set both a step under the middle of the shelf, which is a reading about construction and not about safety.

What's in it

Poultry meat mealThe concentrated form, with no bird named.
Barley, corn, milo, riceMilo is sorghum by another name.
Animal fatNo animal named.
Fish meal, potato flour4% eachThe billed flavour.
Dried beet pulp (desugared)Gentle fibre.
Protein hydrolysate, meal meal, yellow milletMeal meal is how the label prints it.
Dried yeast0.1% MOS, 0.06% beta glucansPrebiotic.
Peas, fish oil, salts
Green-lipped mussel extract0.1%A shellfish known for its omega 3s, for joints.
Dried chicoryA second prebiotic.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, zinc as both chelate and oxide, copper, iodine and selenium.

Named ingredients

Poultry meat meal, barley, corn, milo, rice, animal fat, fish meal (4%), potato flour (4%), dried beet pulp (desugared), protein hydrolysate, meal meal, yellow millet, dried yeast (incl. 0.1% mannan oligosaccharides, 0.06% β-glucans), peas, fish oil, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, green-lipped mussel extract (0.1%), dried chicory.

Against the range

Poultry: Meat meal; Fresh at 20% in the Lamb & Rice.
Billed flavour: Fish meal and potato flour at 4%; Dried lamb protein at 4%.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 56.5%; 55.8% in the Lamb & Rice.
Ash: 5.5%; 6.2% in the Lamb & Rice.

The slightly stronger of the pair on our scoring, with the meat in its concentrated form.

Both stand on cereal: rice, barley, maize and two kinds of millet, milo among them. Poultry is the main animal protein in both, never named to a bird, with the billed flavour at 4%. Fish meal and fish oil appear in both, and so do desugared beet pulp, prebiotic yeast, dried chicory and green-lipped mussel extract at 0.1%.

What varies is the form of the poultry, meal in one and fresh at 20% in the other, and which flavour sits at 4%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

364 kcal/100g

Protein

21.5%

Fat

10.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

5.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

11.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

Carbs

56.5%

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

39.4%

Carbs

51.8%

Oils

2.1%

Other

6.6%

Pricing & size