Burns

Burns Original Adult/Senior: Chicken & Brown Rice review

Name: Burns Original Adult/Senior: Chicken & Brown Rice
Brand: Burns

48.9/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Plainness done on purpose: brown rice on the top line, one dried meat behind it and a handful of named entries after that. The lamb sits in our Good band and the chicken and fish a step below in Average. For a steady adult or a dog slowing down with age, it is a sensible way to build a bowl.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one protein, with each recipe staying with its own animal
A short list you can read in seconds
Dogs carrying a little extra round the middle, fat being 7.5% on all three
Older dogs, with adults and seniors fed from the same bag
Fish free homes, which can take the chicken or the lamb

Worth watching

Carbohydrate high on every recipe, between 60.3% and 62.5% of dry matter
Protein at 18.5% throughout, gentle for a working dog or one in hard training
Dried fish with no species named, so the fish recipe is no help in testing for one

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

How this scores

How we score

48.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. The label's table brackets a 15kg dog between its 10kg and 20kg figures, so start there and let your dog's shape settle the scoop.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lamb 50.4
Chicken 48.9
Fish 40.7

Three recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The ingredients read better than the placing suggests; what holds all three down is a balance built deliberately on rice, with protein and fat kept modest.

What's in it

Brown rice67%Gentle and digestible, and the engine of the food.
Dried chicken20%Water out before mixing, so the printed figure is close to what lands in the kibble.
OatsEasy to digest once cooked.
Peas
Chicken oil, sunflower oilSunflower oil is low in saturated fat and rich in vitamin E.
Seaweed0.5%Iodine, kept small.
Minerals

Taurine at a dosed 1000 mg per kilo, with zinc and manganese as amino acid chelates, an easily absorbed form.

Named ingredients

Brown Rice (67%), Dried Chicken (20%), Oats, Peas, Chicken Oil, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed (0.5%), Minerals.

Against the range

Brown rice: 67%; 61% on the fish, 58% on the lamb
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 62.5%; The highest; the lamb is 60.3%
Calcium, dry matter: 1.21%; 1.32% on the fish, 2.17% on the lamb

Chicken is the obvious place to begin for a dog with no history to work around.

Every recipe is brown rice first, one dried meat second, then oats, peas, a fat or oil, seaweed at 0.5% and minerals. No recipe mixes one animal with another. Protein is declared at 18.5% and fat at 7.5% on all three, and each carries taurine at 1000 mg per kilo with zinc and manganese as amino acid chelates.

What changes is the meat and the fat: chicken with chicken oil, fish with salmon oil, lamb with lamb fat. The lamb carries the most meat and the least rice.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

327.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.5%

Fat

7.5%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

20.3%

Fat

8.2%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

6.6%

Carbs

62.5%

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

20%

Carbs

76.9%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

2.1%

Other

0.5%

Pricing & size