Burgess Supadog Finest Light review

The overall result lands in our Average band, while a typical adult dry food manages our Good band. Interestingly, transparency reads Good and protein and processing Average, while nutritional balance is the reading that pulls it down at Poor. The recipe leans hard on cereals, the named meat share is small, and several entries sit at the vaguer end of their categories. As a working slimming tool for an otherwise healthy dog, it still does what it says.

Ingredients, as declared: Wholegrain Maize, Wholegrain Wheat, Poultry Meal (11% inc Chicken 9%), Meat & Bone Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Wheat Feed, Oat Feed, Minerals, Lignocellulose, Yeast (Brewer's Yeast and Grains), Poultry Gravy, Poultry Fat, Fish Meal, Fish Oil (0.5%), Yeast (as a source of Mannan-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic MOS 0.2%)), Yucca Schidgera (0.024%), Glucosamine (0.014%).

Wholegrain maize and wholegrain wheat open the list and set the recipe's character: this is a cereal-first food with its animal protein concentrated into meals. Poultry meal runs at 11%, of which 9% is declared chicken, and fish meal further back adds a marine protein top-up.

Meat and bone meal is the entry to pause on. It is a rendered product that can come from any animal, which is why the recipe cannot be pinned to particular species. Nutritionally it contributes protein and minerals; for label clarity it contributes nothing.

The slimming machinery is deliberate. Fibre is raised to 6.0% using beet pulp and lignocellulose, the latter a plant fibre that fills without feeding, and fat is held at 6.0%. L-Carnitine at 150 mg/kg is a well-established addition in weight-control recipes, there to help the body draw on fat stores while sparing muscle.

Fish oil at 0.5% and a MOS prebiotic at 0.2% look after skin and gut respectively, and brewer's yeast brings B vitamins. Glucosamine gets a mention at 0.014%, a nod to the joints that carry the extra weight. Part of the zinc is chelated at 25 mg/kg, the form usually absorbed more readily.

One bag size, 12.5kg. As a guide, feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition takes about 282 grams a day, assuming around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The label itself suggests just 100 to 200 grams for dogs from 5kg to 15kg, a deliberately leaner allowance for a food built around weight loss. Steer by body condition and trim the portion as the waist reappears.