Lily's Kitchen Senior Recipe for Older Dogs

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Lily's Kitchen Senior Recipe for Older Dogs

WetCompleteSeniorGrain-freeFish oil
62/ 100

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

Good points

  • 60.1% meat
  • Low starch, about 10% carbs
  • One main animal protein: turkey

First ingredients: Turkey (60%), Cranberries (4%), Parsnips (3%), Carrots (2%), Sugar Snap Peas (1%)… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
60.1%
Protein, dry weight
50%
Carbs, dry weight
~10%
kcal/100 g
90

Ingredients

Listed first: Turkey. 60.1% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 60.1%
  • Plants 10%
  • Other 0.4%
  • No amount given 29.6%

Turkey (60%), Cranberries (4%), Parsnips (3%), Carrots (2%), Sugar Snap Peas (1%), Minerals, Kelp, Salmon Oil (0.1%), Green Lipped Mussel (0.1%), FOS (0.1%), MOS (0.1%), Goldenrod, Nettles, Aniseed, Rosehips, Marigold Flowers, Cleavers, Chickweed, Alfalfa, Milk Thistle, Dandelion Root, Burdock Root, Celery Seeds

Meat named animal protein

From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.

Additives

Vitamins (per kg): Vitamin D3 200 IU, Vitamin E 20 mg. Trace Elements (per kg): Zinc (Zinc Chelate of Glycine Hydrate) 25mg, Manganese (Manganese Chelate of Glycine Hydrate) 1.4mg, lodine (Calcium lodate, Anhydrous) 0.75mg, Copper (Copper (II) Chelate of Amino Acids Hydrate) 1mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Turkey”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Turkey (60%)Named meat60%
Cranberries (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Parsnips (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Carrots (2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Sugar Snap Peas (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
MineralsOtherNot given
KelpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Salmon Oil (0.1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.1%
Green Lipped Mussel (0.1%)Named meat0.1%
FOS (0.1%)Other0.1%
MOS (0.1%)Other0.1%
GoldenrodOtherNot given
NettlesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
AniseedOtherNot given
RosehipsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Marigold FlowersOtherNot given
CleaversOtherNot given
ChickweedOtherNot given
AlfalfaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Milk ThistleOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 50% and carbs about 10%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein10%50%
above the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat5%25%
Carbohydrate~2%~10%
within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre0.5%2.5%
Ash2.5%13%
Moisture80%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.

Energy90 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 62

Starch scored best (16.7 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    26 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label21 / 35 points

      60.1% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level5 / 10 points

      Protein is 50% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    16.7 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 10% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    8 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3 points

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other wet foods

Top 42% of wet foods. 55 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked wet foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 28 ingredients.

28 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, aniseed, burdock root, carrot, celery, chickweed, cleavers, cranberries, dandelion root, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), golden rod, green-lipped mussel, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), marigold meal, milk thistle, minerals, nettle, parsnip, peas, rosehips, salmon oil, seaweed, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Lily’s Kitchen. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Lily’s Kitchen6 x 400g · £20.456 x 400g£20.45£8.52/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Lily’s Kitchen400g · £3.80400g£3.80£9.50/kgVisit
Lily’s Kitchen10 x 150g · £14.8510 x 150g£14.85£9.90/kgVisit
Lily’s Kitchen150g · £1.70150g£1.70£11.33/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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Every reading we have, newest first
DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Lily’s Kitchen10 x 150g£14.85£9.90/kg
4 Oct 2026Lily’s Kitchen150g£1.70£11.33/kg
4 Oct 2026Lily’s Kitchen400g£3.80£9.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Lily’s Kitchen6 x 400g£20.45£8.52/kg
28 Sep 2026Lily’s Kitchen10 x 150g£14.85£9.90/kg
28 Sep 2026Lily’s Kitchen150g£1.70£11.33/kg
28 Sep 2026Lily’s Kitchen400g£3.80£9.50/kg
28 Sep 2026Lily’s Kitchen6 x 400g£20.45£8.52/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

3 wet foods score 6 to 7 points higher at the same price or less.

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Carbs
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To feed
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+7 pointsCompare

Meat
80% this food 60.1%
Carbs
about 11% this food about 10%
To feed
68% less per 1,000 kcal

+6 pointsCompare

Meat
65% this food 60.1%
Carbs
about 9% this food about 10%
To feed
65% less per 1,000 kcal

+6 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Lily’s Kitchen (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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