Burns

Burns Original Adult/Senior: Fish & Brown Rice Adult/Senior review

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

40.7/100Average

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

40.7/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyExcellent

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

Fish

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 rice61%
Dried fish20%The species is not named, so treat it as fish in general.
Oats
PeasFibre and a little plant protein.
Salmon oil, sunflower oilSalmon oil brings the marine omega 3s.
Seaweed0.5%
Minerals

Taurine at 1000 mg per kilo, with zinc, manganese and copper as amino acid chelates and selenium from yeast.

Dried fish with no species named, so it cannot narrow an elimination diet to one fish.

Named ingredients

Brown Rice (61%), Dried Fish (20%), Oats, Peas, Salmon Oil, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed (0.5%), Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Dried fish 20%; Chicken 20%, lamb 24%
Fat source: Salmon oil and sunflower oil; Chicken oil or lamb fat on the others

The one to pick for marine omega 3s, if the species does not matter.

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

324.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.5%

Fat

7.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

20.3%

Fat

8.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

61.7%

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

75.6%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

3.1%

Other

0.8%

Pricing & size