62/100Good
Burns
Burns Toy & Small Breed Original: Chicken & Rice review
49.3/100Average
DryAdult
Burns takes its chicken and rice idea down to toy and small breeds, and enriches it on the way with chicken oil and a little dried fish. It sits in our Average band. Two rices still come ahead of the chicken, which caps the meat share.
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Our view
Likely to suit
- Toy and small breed adults, the dogs the recipe is portioned for
- Busy little dogs. Fat is set at a fuller 11.0% for a faster metabolism
- Owners who like a short label where every ingredient is named in plain words
- Tiny portions: the feeding scale starts at 3kg of dog
Worth watching
- Dried fish alongside the chicken, so neither a chicken-only nor a fish-free plan
- Rice first and second, with carbohydrate estimated at 55.4% of dry matter
Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.
How this scores
How we score49.3/100Average
Protein and processingAverage
Nutritional balancePoor
TransparencyGood
ValueAverage
The details
Dog fit
Listed for toy and small breed adults. If your dog is on a single-protein plan, the unnamed dried fish is the line to check first.
Food type
Dry
Life stage
Adult
Breed size
Toy, Small
Main protein
Chicken
The score, in context
- Chicken 49.3
All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.
Rice leads the list, so the score stays modest even though the small-breed sizing firms up the protein and fat.
What's in it
- Brown rice44%The base of the recipe.
- Dried chicken23%Goes in with its water already gone, so protein reads better than the running order suggests.
- White rice13%The quicker-digesting rice, plausibly there for small, fast-burning dogs.
- Chicken oil
- Oats, peasFibre and minerals.
- Sunflower oil
- Dried fishNo species named. Adds protein and taste, and rules out fish-free feeding.
- Seaweed0.5%Iodine from a natural source.
- Minerals
Taurine at 1000mg per kilo leads the panel, with vitamin E at 150IU and chelated trace minerals itemised down to selenised yeast at 0.2mg.
Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.
Named ingredients
Brown Rice (44%), Dried Chicken (23%), White Rice (13%), Chicken Oil, Oats, Peas, Sunflower Oil, Dried Fish, Seaweed (0.5%), Minerals.
Against the range
Nutritional analysis
Declared analysis
Energy
345.5 kcal/100g
Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*
Protein
21%
Fat
11%
Fibre
2%
Ash
7%
Dry weight
Protein
22.8%
Fat
12%
Fibre
2.2%
Ash
7.6%
Carbs
55.4%
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
24.8%
Carbs
67.7%
Veg
0.5%
Oils
6.4%
Other
0.6%
Pricing & size
- Price per kilo
- £6.00 (RRP)
- Pack
- 2kg, 6kg
- A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)
- 220 to 265 g a day, 245 in the middle
- Cost per day, 15kg dog
- £1.47
A small dog's share is what matters here: the label asks 56 grams a day at 4kg.
Priced at the premium end for a dry food, more than the analysis justifies.
Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.
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