Dibo

Dibo Fresh Menu: Beef review

Name: Dibo Fresh Menu: Beef
Brand: Dibo

78.8/100Excellent

FreshAdult

Flavour

Gently cooked blocks in four dishes, the salmon in our Outstanding band and the beef, chicken and lamb in Excellent. The meat entries are opened up on the label into muscle and the organs that go in with it, which few fresh foods bother to do. Rice in every block keeps the starch higher than most fresh feeding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat better when the bowl smells of real cooking
Owners who like a meat entry opened up, tripe, lung and kidney written out on the beef
Adults of every build, toy to giant
Portioning by the 0.4 kg block
A dog that does well on rice

Worth watching

Blocks live in the fridge or freezer and want eating within a day or two of opening
Salmon oil in the beef, chicken and lamb, so none of those is fish free
No energy figure printed, so the portion guides are a starting point

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

How this scores

How we score

78.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The label puts a 15kg adult at 300 to 600 grams a day, so let your dog's waistline set where in that range it eats.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Salmon 83.6
Beef 78.8
Lamb 77.9
Chicken 77.7

Four recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

The salmon is the strongest of the four by a clear step; beef, lamb and chicken bunch so tightly behind it that the animal your dog suits should decide among them.

What's in it

Beef: muscle meat, tripe, lung, kidney, liver, fat67%, 16% muscle meatThe organs are written out. Tripe is prized by fresh feeders for how easily it digests.
RiceThe only main entry without a figure.
Carrot5.2%
Broccoli5.2%
Chicory3.2%In for its inulin, which feeds the gut's own bacteria.
Minerals, appleApple appears only in this dish.
Hemp oil, salmon oilSalmon oil means fish is in the block.

Dosed in print per kilo: vitamin E at 133 mg, iron at 20 mg, zinc at 34 mg and selenium at 0.08 mg.

No calcium figure is declared. Ask Dibo for it if your dog has a reason to need it.

Named ingredients

67% Beef (16% muscle meat, tripe, lung, kidney, liver, fat) rice, 5.2% carrot, 5.2% broccoli, 3.2% chicory, minerals, apple, hemp oil, salmon oil, Dish Composition (as listed in the accordion): 67% Beef, Rice, 5.2% Carrot, 5.2% Broccoli, 3.2% Chicory, Minerals, Apple, Hemp oil, Salmon oil

Against the range

Meat: 67% beef, 16% muscle meat; 67% on chicken and lamb, 66% on the salmon.
Moisture: 61.3%; The wettest block; the chicken is 57.1%.
Fruit: Apple; No apple in the other three.

The organ-heavy choice, with more offal than muscle written into its meat share.

Every block leads on one named animal at 66% or 67%, with the meat opened up into muscle and organs, and rice second without a figure. Carrot, broccoli or courgette and chicory all carry percentages, and hemp oil finishes all four. Moisture runs from 57.1% to 61.3%. In dry matter, protein lands between 26.8% and 35.0% and fat between 19.4% and 28.5%. Carbohydrate converts to between 31.3% and 34.9% of dry matter, well above the typical fresh food, which is the rice at work.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

168.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10.95%

Fat

10.1%

Fibre

Ash

3.07%

Moisture

61.27%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

26.1%

Fibre

5.2%

Ash

7.9%

Carbs

32.5%

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

83.1%

Veg

16.9%

Pricing & size