Burns

Burns Grain-Free Adult/Senior: Duck & Potato review

Name: Burns Grain-Free Adult/Senior: Duck & Potato
Brand: Burns

47.1/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free kibble that keeps each bag to exactly one animal, named on every line from the dried meat to the fat. Both sit in our Average band, potato-led and high in carbohydrate. For restricted feeding the range is more useful than that band suggests.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Elimination trials. Each variety keeps to a single named animal, with no stray oils or unnamed fats
Grain-avoiding dogs: buckwheat is a gluten-free seed with no link to wheat
Chicken-weary dogs, with duck and turkey as a change that is not exotic
Greying dogs on standard rations, as the bag is written for adults and seniors

Worth watching

Potato at nearly half the recipe, so meat plays a supporting role
A modest meat share, better suited to gentle feeding than heavy work

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

How this scores

How we score

47.1/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, with the name covering seniors too. Pick the animal your dog has not reacted to and keep everything else in the bowl to match.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Turkey 47.5
Duck 47.1

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Nothing meaningful separates the two in the bowl, so choose by protein, not by score.

What's in it

Potato48%Leads the recipe.
Buckwheat27%A seed, not a true grain, with a little more protein than most cereals.
Dried duck19%Dried before weighing, so the figure is a concentrated one.
Duck fatSame animal as the meat. This is what keeps the bag usable for a single-protein plan.
PeasOnly in the duck.
Seaweed0.5%Trace minerals.
Minerals

Taurine at 1000 mg per kilo, selenium as selenised yeast, and copper, manganese and zinc as amino acid chelates, the forms generally taken up best.

Named ingredients

Potato (48%), Buckwheat (27%), Dried Duck (19%), Duck Fat, Peas, Seaweed (0.5%), Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Dried duck 19%; Dried turkey 20%.
Peas: Yes; The turkey drops them.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 60.5%; 61.0% on the turkey.

Duck is where you go when the everyday meats have stopped working, and this keeps the whole animal side on duck.

Both recipes follow the same pattern. Potato leads at nearly half the bag, buckwheat follows at 27%, and the meat is dried before weighing, so its 19% or 20% can be taken at face value. The fat always matches the meat, duck with duck and turkey with turkey, and nothing else animal appears.

Beyond that the list is nearly bare: seaweed at 0.5%, the mineral block, and peas in the duck alone. Estimated carbohydrate runs at 60.5% and 61.0% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

325.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.5%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

20.3%

Fat

8.8%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

60.5%

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

19%

Carbs

77.6%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size