Lily's Kitchen

Lily's Kitchen Dry Adult: Beef with Ancient Grains review

Name: Lily's Kitchen Dry Adult: Beef with Ancient Grains
Brand: Lily's Kitchen

52.5/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Five Good recipes in one house style: freshly prepared meat measured at the top, a joint care mix with a figure against each part, and a dosed prebiotic pair. Only the beef uses grain. Transparency is Outstanding on all five, and the meat is what they stand on.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the fresh meat named and measured at the top of the list
Older or stiffening dogs. Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and methylsulfonylmethane each carry a figure
Rotation feeding, with one construction running through all five
An unsettled gut, with mannan oligosaccharides and fructooligosaccharides dosed in print
Grain-free homes: four of the five build on sweet potato, potato, peas and lentils

Worth watching

Fish in four of the five, as salmon oil or salmon itself. Only the lamb leaves it out
Lamb gravy in the woodland recipe, despite a front of bag naming duck, salmon and venison
Egg in four of the five, leaving one choice for a dog that reacts to it

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

How this scores

How we score

52.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If your dog avoids fish, egg or lamb, read the full list of the flavour you pick before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Wild Woodland Walk 58.1
Countryside Casserole 57.2
Salmon Supper 54.0
Beef 52.5
Shepherd's Pie 50.5

All five Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Large declared meat shares and figures against every supplement earn the placing; the water in fresh meat keeps the range from climbing further.

What's in it

Beef: freshly prepared beef, beef liver43% (36%, 7%)Liver brings vitamin B12, vitamin A, copper and iron.
Potatoes18%
Rye, spelt13%, 4%The only grain in the range.
Egg, sweet potatoes, minerals
Amaranth, quinoa2% eachPseudocereals, not true grains.
Beef tallow, salmon oilThe salmon oil puts fish on the list.
Botanicals and herbs1%Twelve of them sharing the 1%, so each at trace level.
Potato protein, nutritional yeast
Prebiotics: MOS, FOS1.3g/kg, 0.8g/kg
Carrots, apples, joint care mix, cranberries, spinachJoint mix: methylsulfonylmethane at 200mg/kg, glucosamine and chondroitin at 150mg/kg.

No moisture figure printed, so the dry matter figures assume the 8% a kibble usually holds.

Named ingredients

43% Beef: Freshly Prepared Beef (36%), Beef Liver (7%). Potatoes (18%), Rye (13%), Egg, Spelt (4%), Sweet Potatoes, Minerals, Amaranth (2%), Quinoa (2%), Beef Tallow, Botanicals & Herbs* (1%), Salmon Oil, Potato Protein, Nutritional Yeast, Prebiotics (Mannan Oligosaccharides 1.3g/kg, Fructooligosaccharides 0.8g/kg), Carrots, Apples, Joint Care Mix (Methylsulfonylmethane 200mg/kg, Glucosamine 150mg/kg, Chondroitin Sulphate 150mg/kg), Cranberries, Spinach. *Botanicals & Herbs: Alfalfa, Chickweed, Cleavers, Goldenrod, Nettles, Seaweed, Dandelion Root, Celery Seeds, Milk Thistle, Burdock Root, Marigold Flowers, Rosehips.

Against the range

Grain: Rye and spelt, with amaranth and quinoa; None on the other four.
Meat: 43% beef with liver; 32% to 42% on the others.
Fat, as fed: 15%; The richest of the five.
Protein, dry matter: 22.8%; The lowest; the salmon reaches 26.6%.

The one for a dog that does well on grain and likes red meat.

Every recipe opens with freshly prepared meat and a printed percentage, from 32% on the lamb to 43% on the beef. Fresh meat is mostly water and much of it bakes off, so protein lands at 22.8% to 26.6% of dry matter. The beef is the only one with grain; the other four build on sweet potato, potato, peas and lentils.

A dosed joint care mix, a dosed prebiotic pair and the same twelve botanicals sharing 1% appear on every bag. Pea and potato protein prop up the protein figure on most of them.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

381 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

51.1%

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

62.1%

Carbs

28.3%

Veg

1.4%

Oils

2.7%

Other

5.5%

Pricing & size