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Lukullus Vitality Adult Grain-Free Dry: Digestive Support Chicken review

Name: Lukullus Vitality Adult Grain-Free Dry: Digestive Support Chicken
Brand: Lukullus

69/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Four grain-free kibbles on one peas and potato base, each pointed at a job: digestion, immunity, weight or mobility. Every bag names its bacterial strain and prints taurine, choline and L-carnitine. The digestive chicken is the strongest of them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog with one particular need, as each recipe has its own job
Owners who read the small print, with a full vitamin list and chelated minerals
Dogs kept off grain; peas and potatoes carry the starch throughout
Sensitive guts, with inulin, mannan oligosaccharides and a named Lactobacillus strain in every bag
Dogs new to unusual meats, wild boar leading one recipe
Easy switching, since the four share one backbone

Worth watching

Salmon oil in every recipe, so none is fish free
Chicken in all four through the fat or the hydrolysed liver
Peas at 26% sit level with the meat, so a good share of each bowl is plant

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

How this scores

How we score

69/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of all breeds. The labels ask 195 to 310 grams a day for a 15kg dog depending on the recipe, so pick by need and let the waistline break the tie.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Digestive Support Chicken 69.0
Immune System Support Wild Boar 64.5
Light Turkey 63.5
Mobility Support Beef 60.9

All four Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The spread is narrow and comes down to how much of each bowl is animal; the printed detail underneath is what lifts the range.

What's in it

Chicken protein26%Dried, so the figure sits near the true weight.
Peas26%Level with the meat, and doing some of the meat's job.
Potatoes15%
Hydrolysed chicken protein, chicken fat8% eachEvery land animal entry here is chicken.
Dried apple pomace, carrots5%, 2%
Hydrolysed chicken liver, salmon oil, brewer's yeast2% eachSalmon oil is the one entry outside chicken.
Psyllium seeds and husks1%The digestive brief.
Rapeseed oil, linseed oil1% each
Dried camomile, pea flour0.4% camomile
Inulin, beta-glucans, MOS, yucca, Lactobacillus helveticus0.022% down to 0.015%

Taurine at 2000mg, choline chloride at 2300mg and L-carnitine at 300mg per kilo, with zinc at 140mg and iron at 65mg as chelates.

Salmon oil at 2% is the one non-chicken entry, which matters for a strict exclusion trial.

Named ingredients

Complete food for adult dogs of all breeds. Chicken protein (26%), peas (26%), potatoes (15%), hydrolysed chicken protein (8%), chicken fat (8%), dried apple pomace (5%), carrots (2%), hydrolysed chicken liver (2%), salmon oil (2%), brewer's yeast (2%), psyllium seeds and husks (1%), rapeseed oil (1%), linseed oil (1%), dried camomile (0.4%), pea flour, inulin (0.022%), beta-glucans (0.02%), mannan oligosaccharides (0.018%), yucca schidigera (0.015%), inactivated bacteria and parts thereof (Lactobacillus helveticus HA-122, 15 x 109 cells/kg).

Against the range

Land animals: Chicken only; Pork fat, beef fat or chicken alongside the lead meat on the others.
Digestive extras: Psyllium, camomile, carrots; Sea buckthorn, lignocellulose or joint support on the others.
Potatoes: 15%; 20% on the other three.

The strongest of the four, and the closest to a single-animal bag.

All four share one grain-free base: a dried named meat protein at 26% or 28%, peas at 26% and potatoes at 15% to 20%, with apple pomace for fibre and brewer's yeast in every bag. Each carries inulin, mannan oligosaccharides and an inactivated Lactobacillus helveticus strain. Salmon oil is in all four, and chicken turns up in every one through the fat or the hydrolysed liver.

The panels are fully printed, with trace minerals as protein hydrolysate chelates. What varies is each recipe's working extras.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

373.5 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

6.7%

Carbs

45.2%

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

36%

Carbs

41.4%

Veg

Oils

12%

Other

3.6%

Pricing & size