Lukullus

Lukullus Vitality Adult Grain-Free Dry: Mobility Support Beef review

Name: Lukullus Vitality Adult Grain-Free Dry: Mobility Support Beef
Brand: Lukullus

60.9/100Good

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

60.9/100Good

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

Beef

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

Beef protein26%
Peas26%
Potatoes20%
Beef fat8%
Dried apple pomace, linseed7%, 3%
Dried parsley, hydrolysed chicken liver, salmon oil, brewer's yeast2% eachChicken liver puts a second animal on the label.
Microalgae oil1%A second marine omega 3 next to the salmon oil.
Dried devil's claw, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.4%, 0.15%, 0.12%By far the fullest joint package in the range.
Pea flour, inulin, MOS, yucca, green-lipped mussel, Lactobacillus helveticus0.01% mussel

Its own panel: L-carnitine at 500mg and zinc at 120mg per kilo, with taurine, choline chloride and chelated copper, iron and manganese.

Named ingredients

Complete food for adult dogs of all breeds. 26 % beef protein, 26 % peas, 20 % potatoes, 8 % beef fat, 7 % dried apple pomace, 3 % linseed, 2% dried parsley, 2 % hydrolyzed chicken liver, 2 % salmon oil, 2 % brewer's yeast, 1 % microalgae oil, 0.4% dried devil's claw, pea flour, 0.15 % glucosamine, 0.12 % chondroitin sulphate, 0.013 % inulin, 0.02 % mannan oligosaccharides, 0.012% Yucca schidigera, 0.01 % green-lipped mussel (Perna canaliculus), inactivated bacteria and parts thereof (Lactobacillus helveticus HA-122, 15 x 109 cells/kg).

Against the range

Joint support: Glucosamine, chondroitin, devil's claw, mussel; None of these on the other three.
L-carnitine: 500mg per kilo; 300mg on the others.
Omega 3: Salmon oil, microalgae oil, linseed; Salmon oil with linseed or plant oils on the others.

The one to pick for a stiffening dog, with a joint package dosed in print.

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

370.4 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

15.6%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

6.7%

Carbs

46.6%

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

46.2%

Veg

Oils

11%

Other

7.8%

Pricing & size