A dog fed a home-cooked or wet-food diet still needs a plain carbohydrate base most of the time, and buying that separately as a mixer is usually cheaper than buying it built into a branded moist food.

This is a mixer, not a complete food on its own - Burns formulate it to be combined with a Burns complete wet food or a home-cooked meal, not fed alone. It's built on brown rice as the main ingredient, with oats, peas, duck fat, whole linseed, seaweed and mixed herbs added, and it's formulated without wheat.

• Complementary food only - not a complete diet on its own
• Composition: Brown Rice 75%, Oats, Peas, Duck Fat, Whole Linseed, Seaweed, Mixed Herbs, Minerals
• Protein 9%, Fat 6.5%, Fibre 3.5%, Ash 3%
• Calcium 0.18%, Phosphorus 0.17%
• Omega-6 1.63%, Omega-3 0.64%
• For dogs aged 6 months and over; 2KG bag

This is not a complete food. Feeding it alone would not meet a dog's nutritional needs - Burns' own guidance is to combine it with a Burns complete wet food or a home-cooked recipe, using their Mixer feeding guide based on the dog's weight. There's no meat in the ingredient list beyond duck fat, so despite "hypoallergenic" in the name, this isn't a single-protein-source food in the way Burns' complete duck recipes are.

Who it's for: dogs over 6 months already being fed a Burns complete wet food or a home-cooked diet, where an owner wants a plain, low-allergen carbohydrate base to combine it with - not dogs needing a standalone diet.