Burns

Burns Sensitive Grain Free: Pork & Potato review

Name: Burns Sensitive Grain Free: Pork & Potato
Brand: Burns

49.9/100Average

DryAdult

A simple single-animal recipe built on pork, a meat most dogs have never tried. One thing needs saying plainly: maize sits third on the list, and maize is a cereal, so the bag does not live up to its grain-free name. Judged on what is in it, it lands in our Average band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs reacting to the everyday proteins. Pork is new territory for most
Simplifying a sensitive dog's bowl, with one animal for both meat and fat
Dogs that struggle with rice or oats
Owners who want the fresh and dried amounts printed as two figures

Worth watching

Maize despite the grain-free name, so the front of the bag cannot guide a dog avoiding all cereals
Carbohydrate at an estimated 60.3% of dry matter

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

How this scores

How we score

49.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The bag suggests 140 grams a day for a 10kg dog and 280 grams for a 20kg dog.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Pork 49.9

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

One named animal and an honest fresh and dried split work in its favour, the size of the starch share works against it, and the two roughly cancel.

What's in it

Pork: freshly prepared, dried34% (22%, 12%)Baking drives off the fresh water, so the dried 12% counts for more than its place suggests.
Potato27%Leads the starch.
MaizeA cereal under a grain-free name. Harmless and digestible, but it should not be there by the title.
Pea starch, peas
Pork fatKeeps the animal side on one species.
Seaweed0.5%Natural iodine.
MineralsCalcium reads 2.07% of dry matter, tracking the bone in the dried pork.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with taurine at 1000mg a kilo, and chelated trace minerals with selenium as selenised yeast.

Maize is on the list despite the Grain Free name.

Named ingredients

Pork (34%) (including 22% Freshly Prepared Pork & 12% Dried Pork), Potato (27%), Maize, Pea Starch, Peas, Pork Fat, Seaweed (0.5%), Minerals.

Against the range

Pork is the only animal, at 34% split into fresh and dried, with pork fat on the same species. Potato, maize, pea starch and peas carry the starch, and protein finishes at a gentle 20.1% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

327 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.5%

Fat

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

20.1%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

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

34%

Carbs

61.7%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

2.3%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size