Briantos

Briantos Adult Mini: Lamb & Rice review

Name: Briantos Adult Mini: Lamb & Rice
Brand: Briantos

47/100Average

DryAdult

A small-bite poultry and rice kibble badged as Lamb & Rice. The lamb is a 5% seasoning on a poultry meat meal base, and that is the main thing to understand before buying. It sits in our Average band, a serviceable everyday food for a healthy small dog.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breed adults, with a feeding scale up to 10kg
Toy and miniature dogs that find standard kibble pieces hard work
Dogs untroubled by grain
One uncomplicated recipe with a fully dosed vitamin and mineral panel

Worth watching

A poultry-led recipe with a lamb flavour, so it does not keep a dog off poultry
Poultry names no bird, and maize gluten adds plant protein
Fish oil is on the list

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

How this scores

How we score

47/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. An owner choosing it to avoid poultry should read the first line of the label before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Lamb 47.0

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

A band below the typical adult dry food, mostly for openness: the lead protein is only poultry and maize gluten props up the protein.

What's in it

Poultry meat mealDried before it goes in, so it carries most of the protein. Poultry covers several birds and the label never says which.
Rice20%
Barley, maizeCarbohydrate lands at an estimated 48.5% of dry matter.
Poultry fat
Lamb meat meal5%Enough to flavour the food and justify the picture.
Dried beet pulpFibre.
Maize glutenPlant protein a dog uses less well than meat.
Protein hydrolysate, dried peasThe hydrolysate sharpens the taste.
Fish oil, dried brewer's yeastOmega 3s and B vitamins.
Sodium chloride, potassium chloride

A fully dosed vitamin panel with the B group, and part of the zinc as a chelate, the better-absorbed form.

Lamb is 5% of the recipe; poultry meat meal leads the list.

Named ingredients

Poultry meat meal, rice (20%), barley, maize, poultry fat, lamb meat meal (5%), dried beet pulp, maize gluten, protein hydrolysate, peas (dried), fish oil, dried brewer's yeast, sodium chloride, potassium chloride

Against the range

Poultry meat meal leads, with lamb meat meal at 5% further down, and rice at 20%, barley and maize carry the starch. Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

362.6 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

5.9%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

6.4%

Carbs

48.5%

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

33.5%

Carbs

60.4%

Oils

4.4%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size