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Burns Senior+ Toy & Small Breed - Chicken & Brown Rice review

A solid, honest dry food. Just 20% declared meat content, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. The breakdown below shows exactly where every point went.

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Top 49%scores higher than 51% of rated foodsacross all 3420 foods we've scored
Goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
20%declared meat content

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 64/100 across 13 ingredients (declared percentages used for 3, position estimates for the rest). Named meat is only 20% of the recognised recipe, so the quality score is anchored down towards a plant-led food.
24.5 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 88% of the recipe (+5.3); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
14.3 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Meat content ~48% fresh-equivalent (added up from every named meat on the label; dried meats counted at their fresh weight).
14.6 / 15
Nutritional balance
Composition not fully declared - scored neutral (4/10) until the analytical constituents are published.
4 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.0 · scored July 30, 2026 · full methodology public
73 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 73 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 24.5 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 10 of 10.

The label declares 20% meat, which is a low figure, and a declared low figure is still more honest than silence, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Meat & fish

chicken meal 20%

Carbs & grains

Brown rice 67%oats

Fruit & veg

peasseaweedblueberry extract

Oils & fats

chicken oilsalmon oil 1%sunflower oil

Supplements & extras

mineralsglucosamine 500mg/kgchondroitin sulphate 360mg/kggreen tea extract
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
6 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 15 kg adult dog needs about 188 g a day.

No reliable price data for this food yet, so no cost estimate - we only show numbers we can back.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 15 kg dog works out near 725 kcal).
  2. Portion: we don't have this food's calories yet, so we fall back to a rough 12.5 g per kg of dog.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

No declared analysis yet

The manufacturer's analytical constituents appear here once we've verified the label.

How we read labels

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