Dibo

Dibo Fresh Menu: Salmon review

Name: Dibo Fresh Menu: Salmon
Brand: Dibo

83.6/100Outstanding

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

83.6/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

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

Salmon

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

Salmon: belly, minced salmon66%, 30% bellyOne fish, two cuts.
Rice
Carrot6%A step up from the other dishes.
Courgette6%
Chicory pulp3.2%Feeds the gut bacteria.
Minerals
Hemp oilThe only added oil. No salmon oil on top here.

Dosed in print per kilo: vitamin E at 167 mg, iron at 25 mg, zinc at 42 mg and selenium at 0.1 mg.

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

Named ingredients

66% Salmon (30% Belly, Minced Salmon), rice, 6% carrot, 6% courgette, 3.2% chicory (pulp), minerals, hemp oil). Dish Composition (as listed in the accordion): 66% Salmon, Rice, 6% Carrot, 6% Courgette, 3.2% Chicory pulp, Minerals, Hemp oil

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 35.0%; Highest of the four; the lamb is 26.8%.
Fat, dry matter: 19.4%; Lowest; the lamb is 28.5%.
Added oil: Hemp oil only; The others add salmon oil too.

The strongest dish in the range by a clear step, and the leanest.

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

159.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13.94%

Fat

7.71%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

3.37%

Moisture

60.22%

Dry weight

Protein

35%

Fat

19.4%

Fibre

4.8%

Ash

8.5%

Carbs

32.3%

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

40.6%

Veg

18.7%

Oils

40.6%

Pricing & size