Briantos

Briantos Adult Active review

Name: Briantos Briantos Adult Active
Brand: Briantos

45.9/100Average

DryAdult

Briantos Adult Active is a workmanlike kibble built to fuel dogs that earn their keep, leading with poultry meat meal at 22% and rice at 20% and lifting the fat to 16% for sustained energy. Green-lipped mussel and a generous dose of L-carnitine are thoughtful touches for a food of this kind. A second unnamed meat meal and maize gluten stop the label reading cleanly, and it sits in our Average band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

If your dog puts in a proper shift before dinner rather than waiting around for it, this recipe was mixed with them in mind.

Working and sporting dogs, with fat raised to 16% to keep energy up through long days
Active breeds with joints under load, as green-lipped mussel brings its well-known marine omega 3s to the recipe
Dogs that burn through fuel quickly, because L-carnitine at 500mg supports the way the body turns fat into energy
Households feeding big appetites, since the food comes in a substantial 14kg sack

Worth watching

Read this label closely before you buy, because a few things on it go unsaid.

The second meat meal names no animal at all, and without a name there is no way to rule out a trigger if your dog has a known meat intolerance
Maize gluten tops up the protein from a plant source, worth knowing if you want your dog's protein coming from meat
Fish oil is in the mix from the start, worth knowing if your dog is kept strictly off fish

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

How this scores

How we score

45.9/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The Details

Dog fit

If your dog puts in a proper shift before dinner rather than waiting around for it, this recipe was mixed with them in mind. Read this label closely before you buy, because a few things on it go unsaid.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

This food finishes in our Average band, one step under the Good band a typical adult dry food reaches. The gap is about openness more than danger: an unnamed meat meal, plant protein from maize gluten and a moisture figure the label never declares, which we assume before comparing. None of that stops it fuelling the hard-working dog it was built for; it simply means the label asks for more trust than the best ones do.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Poultry meat meal (22%), rice (20%), barley, maize, poultry fat, meat meal, dried beet pulp, maize gluten, protein hydrolysate, peas (dried), dried brewer's yeast, fish oil, sodium chloride, mussel meat meal (green-lipped mussel), potassium chloride

Named ingredients

Poultry meat meal (22%), rice (20%), barley, maize, poultry fat, meat meal, dried beet pulp, maize gluten, protein hydrolysate, peas (dried), dried brewer's yeast, fish oil, sodium chloride, mussel meat meal (green-lipped mussel), potassium chloride

Nutritional additives

_Nutritional additives:_ Vitamin A 11750 IU, vitamin D3 1125 IU, vitamin E (as all-rac-alpha-tocopheryl acetate) 150mg, vitamin B1 (as thiamine mononitrate) 10mg, vitamin B2 (as riboflavin) 10mg, vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine hydrochloride) 6mg, vitamin B12 (as cyanocobalamin) 40mcg, niacinamide 40mg, pantothenic acid (as calcium-D-pantothenate) 20mg, folic acid 2mg, biotin (as D(+)-biotin) 250mg, choline chloride 1700mg, zinc (as zinc oxide) 70mg, zinc (as zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate) 45mg, copper (as cupric sulphate, pentahydrate) 10mg, iodine (as calcium iodate, anhydrous) 2mg, selenium (as sodium selenite) 0.2mg, L-carnitine 500mg _Technological additives:_ Antioxidants

Ingredient notes

Poultry meat meal at 22% leads the list. Because the water has already been taken out of a meal, that 22% counts for more than the same share of fresh meat. The catch is in the naming: poultry is a family rather than a species, and the plain meat meal further down the list is vaguer still, naming no animal at all. That combination gives the maker flexibility between batches and gives a sensitive dog's owner very little to go on.

Rice at 20%, barley and maize carry the carbohydrate, which converts to an estimated 45.2% of dry matter, close to the 46.2% typical for adult dry food. Maize gluten then tops the protein up from the plant side, a common economy that a dog's body handles less usefully than meat protein.

The active positioning is real. Fat is set at 16%, or 17.4% of dry matter, from poultry fat, and L-carnitine is dosed at 500mg to help working muscles draw on it. The same energy turns into a waistline problem in a dog whose main duty is the sofa. Match the bag to real workload.

The nicest surprise on the list is green-lipped mussel meal, a marine ingredient with a long-standing reputation around joints, joined by fish oil for omega 3s and brewer's yeast for B vitamins. Part of the zinc comes as a chelate, the form generally absorbed more readily, and the vitamin panel is dosed in print.

The label declares no moisture, so our dry-matter figures rest on an assumed 8%, the standard for a kibble of this type.

Price and value

£2.00 a kilo, sold as a 14kg bag.

On our standard maintenance energy estimate, a 15kg adult dog gets through about 225 grams a day, which comes to roughly £0.45.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372.6 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

5.9%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

6.4%

Carbs

45.2%

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

28.4%

Carbs

65.1%

Oils

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size