Lifestage

Lifestage Grain Free Complete Wet Adult: Duck with Chicken review

Name: Lifestage Grain Free Complete Wet Adult: Duck with Chicken
Brand: Lifestage

82.4/100Outstanding

WetAdult

Flavour

Wet food with a named meat at half the pack and a small garden behind it. Two recipes reach our Excellent band and the duck a step up in Outstanding. Every animal and every oil is named to its species, and the plant list is itemised one entry at a time. Pick on the meat your dog does best on.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A printed percentage beside the meat on every pack
Dogs kept off cereal: no grain anywhere in the range
Dogs that drink too little, as about four fifths of each pack is water
Rotation feeding across chicken, turkey and duck with chicken
A rich bowl, with fat between 26.2% and 30.0% of dry matter

Worth watching

Glucosamine and chondroitin are token amounts, so keep any dose your vet has set
Salmon oil on all three labels, so none can anchor a fish-free elimination diet
Minerals convert to between 16.2% and 19.0% of dry matter, a hefty share for wet food

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

How this scores

How we score

82.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The pack's feeding table does not read sensibly, so weigh against our estimate for the first week and adjust by condition.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Duck 82.4
Turkey 79.8
Chicken 79.6

Three recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

What the range does very well is name things, down to the marigold, and that openness is a good part of why it sits where it does on a strong shelf.

What's in it

Duck26%Leads, without having the pack to itself.
Chicken24%Makes up the rest of the 50%.
Green beans, carrot, cranberries8%
Minerals
Sunflower oil, salmon oil, flaxseed oil0.125%, 0.06%, 0.06%Seasoning quantities.
Dried kelp, dried rosemaryRosemary is this pack's herb.
Dried chicory root, MOS
Dried nettle, green tea, dried rosehip, marigold
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.005%, 0.0025%

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron and manganese, each with a figure.

Chicken makes up nearly half the meat, so a chicken-avoiding dog wants the turkey.

Named ingredients

Duck 26%, Chicken 24%, Green Beans, Carrot and Cranberries 8% (from 0.94% Dried Fruit and Vegetables), Minerals, Sunflower Oil 0.125%, Salmon Oil 0.06%, Flaxseed Oil 0.06%, Dried Kelp, Dried Rosemary, Dried Chicory Root, Mannanoligosaccharides (Prebiotic MOS), Dried Nettle, Green Tea, Dried Rosehip, Glucosamine (0.005%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.0025%), Marigold.

Against the range

Meat: Duck 26%, chicken 24%; A single animal on the other two.
Protein, dry matter: 38.1%; The lowest; the turkey reaches 45.0%.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 17.1%; The highest; the turkey is 3.5%.

The top of the range on our scoring, for a dog that already does well on chicken.

Every pack declares 50% named animal content: chicken alone, turkey alone, or duck at 26% with chicken at 24%. Green beans, carrot and cranberries follow at 8%, and the label says that is the fresh weight behind 0.94% of dried fruit and vegetables. The three oils are named to source but used at seasoning levels, so the working fat comes from the meat.

A herbal tail of kelp, chicory root, MOS, nettle, green tea, rosehip and marigold runs through all three, with one herb that changes by pack. No grain appears anywhere. Protein converts to between 38.1% and 45.0% of dry matter, and the added panel is identical across the range.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

92 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

3.4%

Moisture

79%

Dry weight

Protein

38.1%

Fat

26.2%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

16.2%

Carbs

17.1%

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

50%

Added water

25%

Carbs

9.3%

Veg

11.1%

Oils

0.2%

Other

4.3%