Burns Puppy Original Chicken & Rice Burns Dry Dog Food

Name: Burns Puppy Original Chicken & Rice Burns Dry Dog Food
Brand: Burns
Availability: InStock

DryCompletePuppyContains grain

WeakTied 669th 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 49% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Chicken Meal (30%), Brown Rice (22%), White Rice (22%), Oats, Peas… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 30%
Protein, dry weight: 27%
Carbs, dry weight: ~49%
kcal/100 g: 340

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken Meal. 30% of the recipe is declared meat.

Meat 30%
Grain 44%
No amount given 26%

Chicken Meal (30%), Brown Rice (22%), White Rice (22%), Oats, Peas, Chicken Oil, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed, Minerals

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A (25000IU/kg), Vitamin D3 (2000IU/kg), Vitamin E (150IU/kg), Taurine (1000mg/kg), Copper (copper (II) chelate of amino acids hydrate) (12mg/kg), Iodine (calcium iodate anhydrous) (1mg/kg), Manganese (manganous chelate of amino acids hydrate) (20mg/kg), Zinc (zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate) (50mg/kg), Selenium (3b8.11; Selenised yeast inactivated) (0.2mg/kg)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken Meal”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Chicken Meal (30%)	Named meat	30%
Brown Rice (22%)	Grain	22%
White Rice (22%)	Grain	22%
Oats	Grain	Not given
Peas	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
Chicken Oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
Sunflower Oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
Seaweed	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
Minerals	Other	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 49%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	24%	27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	12%	13%
Carbohydrate	~44%	~49%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	3%	3.3%
Ash	7%	7.8%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed	10%	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.

Energy340 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 27

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.7 of 20).

How much meat?
11.6 / 45 points
- Meat on the label10.5 / 35 points
  30% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.1 / 10 points
  Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
3.7 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 48.9% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
6 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed6 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as meal, which earns 50% 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 points
  No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

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

Against other dry foods

Tied 669th 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.

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