Lukullus

Lukullus Adult Tins: Salmon & Chicken review

Name: Lukullus Adult Tins: Salmon & Chicken
Brand: Lukullus

77/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

The grain-keeping half of the Lukullus tin family, and all four recipes land in our Excellent band. The draw is the animals: rabbit, game and goose, meats most British dogs have never met. The grain is a spoonful, 3% to 5% of the tin.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog that has worked through chicken and beef and started leaving food in the bowl
Rabbit, game, goose and salmon spread across the four labels
Offal fans. Hearts, liver, lung and rumen are named on every tin
Owners happy with a little grain in small printed amounts
Big dogs, with each recipe also sold in an 800g tin
Mixed households of adults and seniors

Worth watching

Game is not a species, so the Rabbit & Game cannot anchor an elimination diet on its own
Barley brings gluten to the Turkey Hearts & Goose
No calcium on the Salmon & Chicken label, and its carbohydrate is the highest of the four

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

How this scores

How we score

77/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs of every size. If you are tracking a reaction, start with a tin whose animals are both named to species.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Rabbit 77.7
Turkey Hearts 77.6
Wild Rabbit 77.3
Salmon 77.0

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The four sit so close together that none needs avoiding, and each matches the meat-heavy middle of the wet shelf.

What's in it

Chicken hearts, meat, livers, necks, stomachs46%The largest single block in the range.
Stock27.4%
Salmon20%The only fish recipe.
Millet5%A gentle grain, and it works harder here than the grains elsewhere.
Minerals1%
Olive oil0.5%In place of the usual seed oil.
Thyme0.1%

The same dosed panel as the rest: vitamin D3, vitamin E, biotin, zinc, manganese and iodine.

The only tin in the range with no calcium figure on the label.

Named ingredients

Complete food for adult dogs of all breeds. Salmon and chicken with millet, thyme & olive oil: 46 % consisting of chicken hearts, chicken meat, chicken livers, chicken necks, chicken stomachs, 27.4 % stock, 20 % salmon, 5 % millet, 1 % minerals, 0.5 % olive oil, 0.1 % thyme.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 46%, salmon 20%; Two 33% blocks on the other three.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 21.3%; Highest of the four, above the 15.8% typical; the others run 7.0% to 17.1%.
Energy: 107 kcal per 100g; Lightest here; the rest are 110 to 115.
Oil: Olive; Linseed or safflower on the others.

The familiar choice of the four, for a dog that prefers chicken and fish to rabbit or game.

Three of the four tins pair two 33% meat blocks; the Salmon & Chicken runs chicken at 46% and salmon at 20%. Offal does much of the work inside those blocks, all of it named, and meat stock follows at 26.5% to 27.5%.

Each tin keeps a small grain at 3% to 5% (rice, millet, barley or oat flakes) beside a fruit or vegetable, and closes on one named oil at 0.5%. Every tin carries the same dosed vitamin and trace mineral panel. Calcium is printed on three of the four.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

107 kcal/100g

Protein

10.4%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

43.3%

Fat

22.9%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

21.3%

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

20%

Added water

27.4%

Carbs

Oils

46.5%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size