Burgess

Burgess Sensitive Senior review

Name: Burgess Sensitive Senior
Brand: Burgess

51.1/100Good

DryAdultSenior

The gentlest version of Burgess's rice-led sensitive recipe, tuned for older dogs. Fat is cut right back, and taurine, L-carnitine and glucosamine are dosed in print for age. It does a settling, low-excitement job and does it honestly.

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Our view

Likely to suit

An old dog with a greying muzzle and a tender stomach
Senior dogs with unreliable digestion. Rice, beet pulp and two prebiotics (MOS and FOS) are there to calm things
Older dogs gaining weight as they slow down, on fat of 9.8% of dry matter and L-carnitine at 150 mg/kg
Stiffening joints, with glucosamine declared at 0.014%
Homes where a younger adult shares the bowl, as the label covers adults too

Worth watching

Poultry fat and poultry gravy are not pinned to a species, so a bird-sensitive dog cannot run an exclusion trial on it
Salmon sits beside the turkey, so fish is in every bowl
Carbohydrate is estimated at 55.5% of dry matter. A dog that clearly does better on meatier food may notice

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

How this scores

How we score

51.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. Check whether your dog has ever reacted to poultry, since the fat and gravy are unnamed birds.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Burgess Sensitive Senior 51.1

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A modest meat share and a starchy carbohydrate estimate hold it back, and the senior extras are genuine enough to keep it level with the typical dry food.

What's in it

RiceFirst on the list and the base of the recipe.
Turkey meal16%Concentrated, pre-dried protein, but a small inclusion.
SalmonLevel not declared. Puts fish in every bowl.
Dried beet pulp4.5%The soluble fibre.
Minerals, poultry fatThe fat is an unnamed bird.
Linseed2%Plant omega 3.
Poultry gravy, lignocellulose, oat feedLignocellulose is purified plant fibre, filling without many calories. The gravy, like the fat, names no species.
Fish oil, dried alfalfa1% each
Dried seaweed0.5%
Yeast (MOS), glycerides, chicory root (FOS), yucca, glucosamine0.18% down to 0.014%The prebiotics and the joint support sit down here.

Taurine at 1000 mg/kg for the heart and L-carnitine at 150 mg/kg, with part of the zinc in chelated form at 25 mg/kg, the form generally taken up more readily.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8% and the carbohydrate estimate is a ballpark.

Named ingredients

Rice, Turkey Meal (16%), Salmon, Dried Beet Pulp (4.5%), Minerals, Poultry Fat, Linseed (2%), Poultry Gravy, Lignocellulose, Oat Feed, Fish Oil (1%), Dried Alfalfa (1%), Dried Seaweed (0.5%), Yeast (as a source of Mannan-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic MOS 0.18%)), Mono Di and Tri Glycerides 0.15%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS 0.1%), Yucca Schidigera (0.023%), Glucosamine (0.014%).

Against the range

One recipe, rice first and turkey meal at 16% second, with salmon behind it at an undeclared level. Fat is pared back to 9.8% of dry matter and protein reads 21.7%. The fibre comes in layers: beet pulp, lignocellulose and oat feed. Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

344.7 kcal/100g

Protein

20%

Fat

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

21.7%

Fat

9.8%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

55.5%

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

36.8%

Added water

5.7%

Carbs

39%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

5.4%

Other

11.6%