Lifelong

Lifelong Complete Meat in Gravy Selection: Chicken & Vegetables review

Name: Lifelong Complete Meat in Gravy Selection: Chicken & Vegetables
Brand: Lifelong

50.9/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

A four-flavour box of gravy pouches built the way a great many gravy pouches are, and all four sit in our Good band. The analysis is sensible for an adult dog. What keeps them a step behind the typical wet food is the label: only 4% of each named meat is pinned down, and the rest is category wording.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Smaller dogs and light eaters, from a 100g pouch that opens fresh at every meal
Fussy dogs that eat for the gravy
A bored dog that wants a change without a change of food
Dogs that need more water in their food. Four fifths of every pouch is moisture
Homes with more than one dog, with packs running from 12 up to 96

Worth watching

Named meat at just 4% of each pouch, so no flavour can anchor an elimination diet
Unnamed cereals and vegetable derivatives, free to change between batches
Various sugars on every list, with no amount printed
Estimated carbohydrate at 20.5% of dry matter against 15.8% typical for wet food

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

How this scores

How we score

50.9/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. At this moisture the daily amount looks large on paper, so many homes serve the pouches alongside a dry food and cut both portions to suit.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 51.1
Poultry 51.1
Beef 50.9
Chicken 50.9

All four Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The four pouches score almost level, and what holds them a step back is how much of the recipe goes unnamed, with nothing worrying in the analysis.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives36%Chicken named at 4% inside it.
Vegetable (peas and carrots)4%
CerealsNo grain named.
Minerals, oils and fats
Derivatives of vegetable origin (inulin)0.4%Prebiotic fibre.
Vegetable protein
Various sugarsNo figure given.

One panel shared across the box: vitamin D3, vitamin E and biotin, with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, each dosed per kilo.

Named ingredients

BEEF & CHICKEN IN GRAVY: Meat and Animal Derivatives 36% (4% Beef, 4% Chicken), Cereals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.4% Inulin), Minerals, Various Sugars, POULTRY & LAMB IN GRAVY: Meat and Animal Derivatives 36% (4% Poultry, 4% Lamb), Cereals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.4% Inulin), Minerals, Various Sugars, BEEF & VEGETABLES IN GRAVY: Meat and Animal Derivatives 36% (4% Beef), Vegetable (4% Peas and Carrots), Cereals, Minerals, Oils and Fats, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.4% Inulin), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Various Sugars, CHICKEN & VEGETABLES IN GRAVY: Meat and Animal Derivatives 36% (4% Chicken), Vegetable (4% Peas and Carrots), Cereals, Minerals, Oils and Fats, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.4% Inulin), Vegetable Protein, Various Sugars

Against the range

Named meat: Chicken 4%; Beef on its vegetable twin, two meats on the other pair.
Vegetables: Peas and carrots 4%; Shared with the Beef & Vegetables.
Energy: 87 kcal per 100g; 93 on the two gravy-only pouches.

The chicken twin of the beef and vegetables pouch, with the same lighter energy.

Every pouch declares meat and animal derivatives at 36%, with 4% of each named meat picked out inside that figure. Cereals and derivatives of vegetable origin are written as categories, and the one named thing among them is inulin at 0.4%. Various sugars appear on all four lists with no amount given.

Two flavours add a 4% peas and carrots entry with oils and fats and a vegetable protein line. The analysis is the same throughout: protein at 40.0% of dry matter, fat at 27.5% and estimated carbohydrate at 20.5%. Energy is 93 or 87 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

87 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

27.5%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

20.5%

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

100%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £2.70 (RRP)
Pack: 100 g pouches - 12, 24 (B0GZPVH9R7), 48 (B0958BDB5C) and 96 (B0GZPY19TY) pouch packs per the twister; 12-pouch pack is B08VB8YZ1H
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 760 to 925 g a day, 845 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.28

Budget end of the market for a wet food, though the label gives a little less than that price would suggest.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.