Briantos

Briantos Essentials Adult: Fish review

Name: Briantos Essentials Adult: Fish
Brand: Briantos

22.2/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

Briantos's plainest kibble, and both varieties sit in our Poor band. The label lists categories in place of ingredients, so the only fixed point in the meat is a 4% share of fish or poultry. Plenty of dogs eat food like this happily; the label simply gives you no way to know exactly what is in the bag.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Hardy dogs with no sensitivities, for an uncomplicated daily bowl
Trying a small bag before settling on anything long term
Dogs that do fine on mainstream grain-based recipes, since grains lead the list

Worth watching

Category names that let the recipe shift between batches, a problem for any dog with an intolerance
Salmon oil in both, so the Poultry is not fish free

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

How this scores

How we score

22.2/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. Moisture is not declared, so treat the feeding amounts as a guide and weigh against your dog's condition.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Poultry 22.5
Fish 22.2

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

Transparency drives the result far more than the analysis does, which holds nothing alarming.

What's in it

GrainsNever identified, so wheat and maize are both possible.
Meat and animal by-productsAny mix of species and parts within the legal definition.
of which fish4%The one fixed point in the animal content.
Vegetable by-products
Oils and fatsAn umbrella term.
of which salmon oil0.5%A useful omega 3 source.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with the required trace minerals, each dosed; zinc and iron as sulphates, selenium as sodium selenite.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8% and the calorie figure is our estimate.

Named ingredients

Grains, meat and animal by-products (including 4% fish), vegetable by-products, oils and fats (including 0.5% salmon oil), minerals.

Against the range

Named animal: Fish, 4%; Poultry, 4%
Fish content: Fish plus salmon oil; Poultry carries the salmon oil too

The more consistently fishy of the pair, though the rest of the animal content stays unnamed.

Both labels read as categories: grains, meat and animal by-products with 4% of the named animal, vegetable by-products, oils and fats, minerals. The only other specific ingredient is salmon oil at 0.5%, on both. The analysis is identical across the pair, and so is the additive panel.

What varies is that one 4% figure: fish in one bag, poultry in the other.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

328.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

10%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

52.7%

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

28.3%

Carbs

61.9%

Oils

Other

3.9%

Pricing & size