Briantos

Briantos Adult Sensitive: Lamb & Rice review

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

50.2/100Good

DryAdult

Briantos Adult Sensitive is a lamb and rice kibble with a simple promise: one named meat, familiar cereals and a gentle fibre package. It sits in our Good band, kept from climbing higher by how much of the bowl is cereal and how much of the fat and protein goes unnamed. Nothing on the label is alarming. Fed to a dog that does well on lamb and rice, it does what it says.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Plenty of dogs live happily on lamb and rice, and this recipe keeps that promise simple.

Owners who want a named meat leading the label with no frills behind it
Dogs already settled on a lamb and rice recipe
Owners who want a small trial first, with a 1kg bag on the shelf
Adult dogs of any size, with calcium declared and in range at 1.52% of dry matter

Worth watching

The Sensitive name puts extra weight on what the label leaves unnamed, so read this part before relying on it for a strict regime.

Cereals do most of the carrying, with carbohydrate converting to 51.9% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical for dry food
For a proper elimination diet, note that the poultry fat and the protein hydrolysate name no species and that fish oil is on the list

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

How this scores

How we score

50.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The Details

Dog fit

Plenty of dogs live happily on lamb and rice, and this recipe keeps that promise simple. The Sensitive name puts extra weight on what the label leaves unnamed, so read this part before relying on it for a strict regime.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

It comes out in the Good band on our scoring, level with a typical adult dry food but well short of the recipes at the top of that band. The gap is construction rather than safety: more cereal, and fat and protein sources the label does not pin to an animal. What it promises, a simple lamb-led bowl, it delivers.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb meat meal (20.5%), rice (17.5%), millet (milo), barley, poultry fat, millet (yellow), potato protein, dried beet pulp, protein hydrolysate, peas (dried), dried brewer's yeast, fish oil, sodium chloride, potassium chloride

Named ingredients

Lamb meat meal (20.5%), rice (17.5%), millet (milo), barley, poultry fat, millet (yellow), potato protein, dried beet pulp, protein hydrolysate, peas (dried), dried brewer's yeast, fish oil, sodium chloride, 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 _Technological additives:_ Antioxidants

Ingredient notes

Lamb meat meal at 20.5% leads the list, and meal deserves a fairer reputation than it gets. Take the water out of meat and each gram left holds more protein than the fresh sort. This one names its species, and on a sensitivity recipe that is the part that matters.

Rice at 17.5% is the headline cereal, then two millets and barley behind it. Millet and rice are among the gentler grains on digestion, which fits the brief, but between them the cereals outweigh the meat comfortably, and the analysis says so.

Beet pulp is the fibre source, a standard and well-tolerated choice for firm stools, and dried brewer's yeast adds B vitamins alongside a long, fully dosed added-vitamin panel.

The quiet entries are the ones a sensitivity buyer should notice: poultry fat, a protein hydrolysate with no species named, and fish oil. Hydrolysed protein is processed to be less recognisable to the immune system, and unnamed fat sources rarely trouble a dog with a simple preference. For a genuine exclusion diet, though, the label needs reading with those three entries in mind.

Price and value

£3.99 a kilo, sold in a 1kg bag.

As a guide, feeding works out at around £0.95 a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate).

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

354.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

22%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.8%

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.4%

Carbs

51.9%

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

20.5%

Carbs

72.6%

Oils

5.4%

Other

1.6%

Pricing & size