Lukullus

Lukullus Vitality Adult Grain-Free Dry: Light Turkey review

Name: Lukullus Vitality Adult Grain-Free Dry: Light Turkey
Brand: Lukullus

63.5/100Good

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

63.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

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

Turkey

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

Turkey protein28%The largest meat share in the range.
Peas26%
Potatoes20%
Dried apple pomace9%Fibre to keep a dieting dog feeling fed.
Hydrolysed brewer's yeast5%
Lignocellulose4%Bulk without calories.
Chicken fat3%The one entry outside turkey.
Carrots, salmon oil, linseed oil2%, 1%, 1%
Pea meal, inulin, beta-glucans, MOS, yucca, Lactobacillus helveticus

Taurine, choline chloride and L-carnitine, with chelated trace minerals and vitamins C and E.

Named ingredients

Complete food for adult dogs of all breeds. Turkey protein (28%), peas (26%), potatoes (20%), dried apple pomace (9%), brewer's yeast [hydrolysed] (5%), lignocellulose (4%), chicken fat (3%), carrots (2%), salmon oil (1%), linseed oil (1%), pea meal, 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

Fat, as fed: 9.0%; 14% to 15% on the others.
Energy: 320 kcal per 100g; Lightest of the four by some way.
Fibre, as fed: 7.0%; 3% to 4% on the others.

The deliberately lean one, for a dog that needs to lose a little.

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

320 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

10%

Fibre

7.8%

Ash

6.7%

Carbs

47.7%

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

28%

Carbs

46.7%

Veg

11%

Oils

Other

9.3%

Pricing & size