Burgess

Burgess Sensitive Adult: British Lamb & Rice review

Name: Burgess Sensitive Adult: British Lamb & Rice
Brand: Burgess

53.9/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A plain rice-led kibble from one of Britain's longest-standing feed makers, Good in all three flavours. The appeal is simplicity: rice, a named meat meal and beet pulp do most of the work. The sensitive name covers the stomach, and not every sensitivity going.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose digestion prefers a short, familiar recipe
Several dogs or big appetites. Every flavour comes in a 12.5kg bag
Dogs that get on fine with grain, as rice is the foundation
Owners who want taurine in print, on the lamb and salmon

Worth watching

Poultry fat and gravy from an unnamed bird in all three, so none can anchor a strict exclusion diet
Fish oil in every flavour, which rules out a fish-avoiding dog
The lamb runs mineral-heavy: ash at 14.3% of dry matter, calcium at 3.63%

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

How this scores

How we score

53.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Check your dog's weight against the bag's feeding table, which runs from about 195 to 235 grams a day for a 15kg adult.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Scottish Salmon 61.7
British Turkey 56.0
British Lamb 53.9

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Rice carries a lot of each recipe, and the salmon reads best of the three despite its unnamed poultry meal.

What's in it

RiceFirst on the label and the base of the recipe.
Lamb meal28.5%The largest meat inclusion in the range.
Dried beet pulp7.5%Soluble fibre.
Poultry fatNo bird named, and it may change batch to batch.
Minerals, poultry gravyThe gravy is unnamed poultry too.
Fish oil1%The omega source.
Dried alfalfa1%
Chicory root extract, yucca schidigera0.1%, 0.024%Prebiotic FOS, and yucca for stool odour.

Taurine at 1,500 mg, the largest dose in the range, with trace minerals as sulphates and oxide.

Ash converts to 14.3% of dry matter and calcium to 3.63%, the most mineral-heavy flavour here.

Named ingredients

Rice, Lamb Meal (28.5%), Dried Beet Pulp (7.5%), Poultry Fat, Minerals, Poultry Gravy, Fish Oil (1%), Dried Alfalfa (1%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of fruto-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS 0.1%), Yucca Schidigera (0.024%).

Against the range

Meat meal: Lamb meal, 28.5%; 26% on the other two.
Ash, dry matter: 14.3%; 9.9% on both others.
Protein, dry matter: 20.9%; 25.3% on both others.
Taurine: 1,500 mg; 1000 mg on the salmon, none on the turkey.

The most meat meal and the most taurine, paid for in minerals.

Rice opens every label, with a named meat meal second at 26% to 28.5%. Meal goes in dry and concentrated, yet protein still converts to only 20.9% to 25.3% of dry matter: these are gentle recipes by design. Beet pulp and chicory FOS look after the gut, and fish oil at 1% is in all three.

Poultry fat and poultry gravy appear on every label without naming a bird. Taurine is printed on the lamb and the salmon; the turkey goes without.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

351 kcal/100g

Protein

19%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

13%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

20.9%

Fat

12.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

14.3%

Carbs

50%

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

28.5%

Added water

9.4%

Carbs

41.7%

Veg

Oils

12.1%

Other

7.2%

Pricing & size