Briantos Maxi Adult review

The Good band it earns is exactly where the typical adult dry food also sits, and value is level with that band. Protein and processing and nutritional balance both read Average, transparency reads Poor, and the result is a solidly middling recipe with no standout in either direction. Chicken named at 17.5% gives the label a fixed point many at this level lack, while estimated carbohydrate at 50.2% of dry matter, above the typical 46.2%, and the vaguer entries hold the rest back.

Ingredients, as declared: Dried poultry protein (21%, incl. 17.5% chicken), rice (20%), barley, maize, poultry fat, desugared dried beet pulp, dried pork protein, protein hydrolysate, millet, dried pea, dried yeast, fish oil, sodium chloride, green-lipped mussel extract, potassium chloride

The headline works out as 21% dried poultry protein, of which 17.5% is chicken by name. Dried protein is concentrated, so the finished kibble's protein, converting to 26.1% of dry matter, owes most of itself to that entry. The remainder of the poultry, and the poultry fat that follows, never name their birds.

Rice at 20% leads a broad grain bench with barley, maize and millet behind it. Rice and barley digest well, millet is gluten free and easy on most dogs, and maize is the least loved of the group, adequate rather than admirable.

Dried pork protein is a quiet surprise on a poultry-branded label. Pork is a perfectly good and highly palatable meat, but its presence matters to anyone assuming this is a birds-only bowl.

Green-lipped mussel extract is the recipe's signature flourish, best known as a natural anti-inflammatory for arthritic joints. It arrives without a printed dose, so read it as a statement of intent rather than a measured supplement, with fish oil alongside doing steadier omega 3 work.

Beet pulp handles the fibre, dried yeast adds B vitamins, and calcium converts to 1.63% of dry matter, an unremarkable adult level. The additive panel is printed in full, with part of the zinc chelated for better absorption.

£2.07 a kilo, in a single 14kg bag size.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would get through roughly 242 grams a day at about £0.50, taking the standard maintenance figure of 840 kcal (110 × bodyweight^0.75) as the basis. The label's own table, written for bigger dogs, allows 245 grams at 20kg rising to 780 grams at 90kg.