Lakes Collection

Lakes Collection Lakes Legacy High Protein Dog Food: English Country Duck review

Name: Lakes Collection Lakes Legacy High Protein Dog Food: English Country Duck
Brand: Lakes Collection

71.1/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

The brand's high-meat line, with 65% of each recipe declared as one named animal and provenance printed down to Angus beef and Scottish salmon. Carbohydrate is unusually low for a dry food. All four sit in our Excellent band, the beef marginally the strongest.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that do better when meat does most of the work
Keeping carbohydrate down, at 29.9% to 38.6% of dry matter
Active dogs, with energy from 372 to 382 kcal per 100g
Cereal-free homes
Rotation feeders: only the animal changes

Worth watching

Fat, stock or gravy count inside the 65%
Beans with no bean named
Superfood items quoted as a 4% fresh equivalent each
An omega 3 supplement with no source given

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

How this scores

How we score

71.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium, large and giant adult dogs. The tables ask 140 to 240 grams for a dog of 10kg to 20kg; let the waistline settle any gap.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Lakes Legacy High Protein Dog Food 77.9
Scottish Salmon 74.6
Free Range Chicken 73.0
English Country Duck 71.1

All four Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Meat content does the heavy lifting, and the beef finishes marginally ahead on the highest protein and lowest starch.

What's in it

Freshly prepared English country duck35%
Dried duck22%
Duck fat, duck stock5%, 3%Count inside the 65%.
Sweet potato
BeansThe one loose term on the label: the bean is never named.
Beet pulpFibre.
Dried superfood blend: parsnip, beetroot, orange, asparagus, pumpkinEach item is quoted as equivalent to 4% fresh, so far less dried weight is in the bag.
Omega 3 supplement, mineralsThe supplement's source is not named.
FOS, MOS, olive extract175 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg, 0.01%Prebiotics dosed in print; olive extract as a trace antioxidant.

Named ingredients

65% Duck (35% Freshly Prepared English Country Duck, 22% Dried Duck, 5% Duck Fat & 3% Duck Stock), Sweet Potato, Beans, Beet Pulp, Dried Superfood Blend* (Including Parsnip, Beetroot, Orange, Asparagus, Pumpkin), Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 175 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 50 mg/kg), Olive Extract (0.01%), *Each equivalent to 4% Fresh Ingredients. Recipe formulated without grains.

Against the range

Ash, dry matter: 10.3%, the highest; 7.1% to 9.8%
Protein, dry matter: 30.4%, the lowest; 34.8% to 41.3%
Animal: Duck; Beef, chicken or salmon

A useful step sideways for a dog bored with chicken or reacting to it.

Every recipe declares 65% as one named animal, itemised as 35% freshly prepared, 22% to 25% dried, and a few percent of fat, stock or gravy. Sweet potato, unnamed beans and beet pulp follow, then a dried superfood blend that changes with the animal.

No grain appears on any list. Prebiotics are dosed in print, and an omega 3 supplement of unnamed source runs through all four. Carbohydrate converts to between 29.9% and 38.6% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

38.6%

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

60%

Added water

Carbs

30.5%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size