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

All four come out in our Good band, the same band the broad middle of the dry shelf occupies. The spread is narrow, and it comes down to how much of each bowl is animal. Every recipe declares its named protein at 26% or 28%, peas match that at 26%, and the plant side is always doing serious work. What lifts the range is the detail underneath, a fully printed mineral panel in chelated forms, a named bacterial strain and a genuine purpose behind each recipe rather than four flavours of the same thing.

Ingredients, as declared: 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).

The template holds across all four bags: a named meat protein at 26% or 28%, peas at 26%, and potatoes somewhere between 15% and 20%. The meat is the dried protein form. Its declared percentage therefore sits near the amount the kibble actually holds, though no freshly prepared meat entry appears anywhere. Protein settles at 25.0% as fed across the range, 27.8% of dry matter, with estimated carbohydrate between 44.4% and 47.7%, close to the 46.2% typical for adult dry food.

Peas at 26% are the entry to weigh up. Whole peas carry fibre and minerals, plus a decent share of plant protein. At a sensible share they earn their place easily. At a quarter of the recipe, sitting level with the meat, they are also doing a job that meat would otherwise do, and pea flour or pea meal follows further down every list.

Dried apple pomace runs through the range between 5% and 9% as the fibre source, with brewer's yeast in all four bags for its B vitamins. Every recipe also carries inulin and mannan oligosaccharides beside an inactivated Lactobacillus helveticus strain. Beta-glucans join them in three of the four, a more considered gut package than most everyday kibble bothers with.

Salmon oil appears in all four at 1% or 2%, which makes it the marine omega 3 source and also the reason none of these is a fish free bag. Chicken turns up in every recipe too, as chicken fat in two of them and as hydrolysed chicken liver in the other two. The animal on the front is never quite the only animal inside.

The additive panel is the range's strongest suit. Trace minerals arrive as protein hydrolysate chelates, the form a gut generally takes up more readily, with zinc dosed at 140mg and iron at 65mg per kilo in three of the recipes. Taurine, choline chloride and L-carnitine are all printed, at 2000mg, 2300mg and 300mg per kilo in the chicken, boar and turkey recipes, with vitamin C at 400mg and vitamin E at 600 IU alongside them. The mobility beef runs its own slightly different panel.

Each recipe then adds its own working extras on top of that shared base. That is what makes this a set of four foods, each with its own job.

Chicken protein at 26% with hydrolysed chicken protein at 8% and chicken fat at 8%, which makes this the one recipe where every land animal entry is chicken. The digestive brief shows up in psyllium seeds and husks at 1%, carrots at 2% and dried camomile at 0.4%, with rapeseed and linseed oils alongside the salmon oil. The one entry stepping outside chicken is that salmon oil at 2%. Note it for a strict exclusion trial.

Immune System Support Wild Boar is £3.71 a kilo, with the other three recipes at £3.79. All four are sold in 1kg and 12kg bags, and the light turkey is also listed as a five pack of 1kg and a pair of 12kg.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, a day comes to about 225 grams of the digestive chicken at £0.85 or 229 grams of the wild boar, also at £0.85. The light turkey runs to 262 grams at £0.99 and the mobility beef to 227 grams at £0.86. Those work from an energy need of roughly 840 kcal a day, using the standard maintenance estimate of 110 × bodyweight^0.75. The labels themselves ask between 195 and 310 grams for a 15kg dog depending on which recipe you pick, so treat the waistline as the tiebreaker.