Briantos Essentials Adult with Fish

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Briantos Essentials Adult with Fish

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
10/ 100
WeakTied 1,146th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • 4% meat
  • About 52% carbs (dry weight)
  • Meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Grains, meat and animal by-products (including 4% fish), vegetable by-products, oils and fats (including 0.5% salmon oil)… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
4%
Protein, dry weight
23%
Carbs, dry weight
~52%
kcal/100 g
321

Ingredients

Listed first: Grains. 4% of the recipe is declared meat.

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

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (14,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1000 IU), vitamin E (100mg), zinc [zinc sulphate monohydrate] (125mg), iron [ferrous(II)-sulphate monohydrate] (100mg), copper [copper(II)-sulphate pentahydrate] (10mg), manganese [manganese(II)-sulphate monohydrate] (5mg), iodine [calcium iodate anhydrous] (1.5mg), selenium [sodium selenite] (0.2mg). Technological additives: Antioxidants, preservatives.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Grains”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
GrainsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
meat and animal by-products (including 4% fish)Meat, animal not named4%
vegetable by-productsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
oils and fats (including 0.5% salmon oil)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.5%
minerals.OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 23% and carbs about 52%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein21%23%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat10%11%
Carbohydrate~47%~52%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash9%10%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy321 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 10

How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).

  1. How much meat?

    2 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label1.4 / 35 points

      4% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.6 / 10 points

      Protein is 23.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    2.8 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 51.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    0 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed0 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as an unnamed category, which earns 0% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3 points

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 1,146th of 1,171 dry foods. 7 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 52% to 33% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

2 noted: meat and animal by-products, and derivatives of vegetable origin.

  • 2 noted
  • 14 nothing flagged
14 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, cereals, minerals, oils and fats, preservatives, tocopherols (vitamin E)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg · £37.49Economy Pack: 2 x 14kg£37.49£1.34/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK14kg · £19.9914kg£19.99£1.43/kgVisit
Zooplus UK600g · £1.99600g£1.99£3.32/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK14kg£19.99£1.43/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK600g£1.99£3.32/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£37.49£1.34/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK14kg£19.99£1.43/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK600g£1.99£3.32/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£37.49£1.34/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK14kg£19.99£1.43/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK600g£1.99£3.32/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£37.49£1.34/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 39 points higher and costs up to 5% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
59% this food 4%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 52%
To feed
5% more per 1,000 kcal

+39 points

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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