Burgess

Burgess Sensitive Adult: Scottish Salmon & Rice review

Name: Burgess Sensitive Adult: Scottish Salmon & Rice
Brand: Burgess

61.7/100Good

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

61.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

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

Salmon

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

Rice
Salmon: salmon, salmon meal26%13% of each.
Poultry mealAn unnamed bird behind the fish, the extra animal family that sets this flavour apart.
Poultry fat
Dried beet pulp4.5%
Minerals, poultry gravy
Fish oil, dried alfalfa1% each
Lignocellulose
Chicory root extract, yucca schidigera0.18%, 0.022%The highest FOS figure in the range.

Taurine at 1000 mg, with trace minerals as sulphates and oxide.

Named ingredients

Rice, Salmon (26% inc Salmon 13%, Salmon Meal 13%), Poultry Meal, Poultry Fat, Dried Beet Pulp (4.5%), Minerals, Poultry Gravy, Fish Oil (1%), Dried Alfalfa (1%), Lignocellulose, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS 0.18%)), Yucca Schidigera (0.022%).

Against the range

Meat: Salmon and salmon meal, plus poultry meal; A single named meat meal on the other two.
Protein and processing: Good; Average on the other two.
Taurine: 1000 mg; 1,500 mg on the lamb, none on the turkey.

The best reading of the three, for a dog happy with both fish and poultry.

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

365 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25.3%

Fat

12.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.9%

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

40.4%

Added water

4.4%

Carbs

42.2%

Veg

2.1%

Oils

6.2%

Other

4.8%