Burns Original Dry Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice

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Burns Original Dry Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
21/ 100
WeakTied 934th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • One animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions
  • About 60% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Brown Rice (67%), Dried Chicken (20%), Oats, Peas, Chicken Oil… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
20%
Protein, dry weight
22%
Carbs, dry weight
~60%
kcal/100 g
324

Ingredients

Listed first: Brown Rice. 20% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 20%
  • Grain 67%
  • Other 0.5%
  • No amount given 12.5%

Composition: Brown Rice (67%), Dried Chicken (20%), Oats, Peas, Chicken Oil, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed (0.5%), Minerals.

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Additives (per kg): Vitamin A 25,000IU, Vitamin D3 2,000IU, Vitamin E 100IU, Taurine 1,000mg, Iodine (Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 1mg, Manganese (Manganese Chelate of Amino Acid Hydrate) 20mg, Zinc (Zinc Chelate of Amino Acid Hydrate) 50mg, Copper (Copper (II) Chelate of Amino Acid Hydrate) 12mg, Selenium (3b8.11, Selenised Yeast Inactivated) 0.2mg. Antioxidants (mixed tocopherols)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Brown Rice”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Brown Rice (67%)Grain67%
Dried Chicken (20%)Named meat20%
OatsGrainNot given
PeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Chicken OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Sunflower OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Seaweed (0.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
Minerals.OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 22% and carbs about 60%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein20%22%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat7.5%8.3%
Carbohydrate~54%~60%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.2%2.4%
Ash6%6.7%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy324 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 21

The kind of meat scored best (8.4 of 15). Starch scored lowest (0 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    7.4 / 45
    • Meat on the label7 / 35

      20% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.4 / 10

      Protein is 22.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    0 / 20

    About 60.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as dried, which earns 70% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 934th of 1,171 dry foods. 30 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 60% to 38% by dry weight, and protein is about 36%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 18 ingredients.

18 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, chicken, minerals, oats, peas, poultry fat, rice, seaweed, sunflower oil, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: iodine, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 12% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home12kg · £45.99 up 12% since 10 Aug12kg£45.99£3.83/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home6kg · £30.99 up 11% since 10 Aug6kg£30.99£5.17/kgVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £12.69 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£12.69£6.34/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 12%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£45.99£3.83/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£12.69£6.34/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home6kg£30.99£5.17/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£41.39£3.45/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£9.52£4.76/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home6kg£23.24£3.87/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£41.03£3.42/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.42£5.71/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home6kg£27.89£4.65/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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