Lukullus

Lukullus Adult Tins: Turkey Hearts & Goose review

Name: Lukullus Adult Tins: Turkey Hearts & Goose
Brand: Lukullus

77.6/100Excellent

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

77.6/100Excellent

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

Turkey

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

Turkey hearts, meat, liver, necks33%
Goose hearts, goose liver33%Goose is a genuinely rare protein on a British shelf.
Meat stock27.5%
Barley3%Carries gluten.
Leek2%
Minerals1%
Safflower oil0.5%

Vitamin D3, vitamin E and biotin, with zinc, manganese and iodine, all dosed per kilo.

The only recipe with gluten, from the barley.

Named ingredients

Complete food for adult dogs of all breeds. Ingredients, Turkey hearts and goose with barley, leek & safflower oil: 33 % consisting of turkey hearts, turkey meat, turkey liver, turkey necks, 33 % consisting of goose hearts, goose liver, 27.5 % meat stock, 3 % barley, 2 % leek, 1 % minerals, 0.5 % safflower oil.

Against the range

Other animals on the label: Goose; Rabbit, game, salmon or chicken on the others.
Energy: 115 kcal per 100g; Most energy dense of the four.
Grain: Barley 3%; Rice, millet or oat flakes elsewhere, none with gluten.

The goose makes this the most unusual tin in the range, and the barley is the one thing to check.

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

115 kcal/100g

Protein

11%

Fat

7.2%

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

45.8%

Fat

30%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

11.3%

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

33%

Added water

27.5%

Carbs

Veg

Oils

33.5%

Other

Pricing & size