Burns

Burns Original Adult/Senior: Lamb & Brown Rice review

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

50.4/100Good

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

50.4/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

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

Lamb

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 rice58%Pulled back further than its siblings.
Dried lamb24%The meatiest label of the three.
Oats
Lamb fatDoes the job the seed oils do elsewhere.
Peas
Seaweed0.5%
Minerals

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

Named ingredients

Brown Rice (58%), Dried Lamb (24%), Oats, Lamb Fat, Peas, Seaweed (0.5%), Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Dried lamb 24%; 20% on the chicken and fish
Sunflower oil: None; On both the others
Ash and calcium, dry matter: 8.7% and 2.17%; Both the highest; more dried red meat means more bone

The strongest of the three on our scoring, and the meatiest.

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

322.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.5%

Fat

7.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

20.1%

Fat

8.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

60.3%

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

24%

Carbs

71.2%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

Other

1.3%

Pricing & size