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Burns Wet Food: Wild Fish with Carrots & Brown Rice review

Name: Burns Wet Food: Wild Fish with Carrots & Brown Rice
Brand: Burns

44.9/100Average

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Flavour

About as plain as a tin gets, four ingredients and stop, and three of the four settle in our Good band. Carrots at 25% give the range its character and take space meat could have had. The wild fish drops to Average.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Unsettled digestion, with four ingredients and nothing rich
Reading the whole list at a glance, every main entry with a percentage
Dogs of different ages, from puppyhood to old age
One named meat: chicken, lamb and turkey each stand alone
A small tin. There is a 150g size beside the 395g

Worth watching

Brown rice in all four, so not for a grain-free home
Estimated carbohydrate of 42.6% to 55.7% of dry matter, against 15.8% for typical adult wet food
Chelates bound to protein hydrolysates of no named source

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

How this scores

How we score

44.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The maker's chart gives roughly 600 grams a day for a 15kg adult, so portions run large.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

White Fish

The score, in context

Wholesome Turkey 58.5
Free Range Chicken 57.8
Hearty Lamb 55.3
Wild Fish 44.9

Four recipes across Good and Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A comment on construction and nothing more: Burns has built against the grain of a strong field for years, and every label reads Outstanding on transparency.

What's in it

White fish26%
Carrots25%Vitamin A and soluble fibre, but mostly water and fibre: a quarter of the tin not given to meat.
Brown rice13%Whole, calm starch, and the entry that rules out a grain-free home.
Salmon oil1%Long-chain omega 3, the reason a fish recipe is usually chosen.
Minerals
Sunflower oilRich in vitamin E.

Vitamins A, D3 and E dosed in print, trace elements as chelates of protein hydrolysates of unnamed source, and selenium as selenised yeast, the more bioavailable form.

The white fish is not named to a species.

Named ingredients

White Fish (26%), Carrots (25%), Brown Rice (13%), Salmon Oil (1%), Minerals, Sunflower Oil. As a natural product, the consistency of Burns Wet Food Range may change from time to time.

Against the range

Added oils: Salmon oil 1%, sunflower oil; None on the other three.
Fat, dry matter: 8.7%; Leanest of the four.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 55.7%; Highest in the range.
Band: Average; Good on the other three.

The lightest tin, at an estimated 84 kcal per 100g, for a dog that needs a leaner bowl.

Every tin is the same four lines: one named meat at 26% to 27.5%, carrots at 25%, brown rice at 13% and minerals. Only the wild fish adds oils, salmon oil at 1% and sunflower oil. Protein lands between 24.3% and 27.4% of dry matter, and estimated carbohydrate between 42.6% and 55.7%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

83.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

6.3%

Fat

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

27.4%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

55.7%

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

26%

Added water

21%

Carbs

13%

Veg

25%

Oils

5.3%

Other

9.7%