Lukullus Classic Junior Chicken & Salmon

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Lukullus Classic Junior Chicken & Salmon

DryCompletePuppyContains grainFish oil
38/ 100
WeakTop 25% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions
  • High protein, 39% dry weight
  • Includes organ meat

Worth knowing

  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Chicken protein (26%), maize (20%), peas (16%), poultry fat (10%), pea protein (9%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
39%
Protein, dry weight
39%
Carbs, dry weight
~32%
kcal/100 g
367

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken protein. 39% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 39%
  • Grain 20%
  • Plants 28.6%
  • Other 11.8%

Chicken protein (26%), maize (20%), peas (16%), poultry fat (10%), pea protein (9%), salmon protein (6%), hydrolysed poultry protein (5%), dried apple pulp (3.6%), hydrolysed poultry liver (2%), salmon oil (1%), potassium chloride (0.4%), sodium chloride (0.3%), pea meal, dried parsley (0.1%), mannan-oligosaccharides (0.0198%), fructo-oligosaccharides (0.015%), mojave yucca (0.015%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (22,000 IU), vitamin B1 (4.7mg), vitamin B2 (6.4mg), vitamin B6 (8.5mg), vitamin B12 (0.3mg), vitamin C (240mg), vitamin D3 (1350 IU), vitamin E (500 IU), biotin (0.5mg), calcium-D-pantothenate (23mg), folic acid (0.4mg), niacinamide (55mg), zinc [protein hydrolysate zinc chelate] (105mg), manganese [protein hydrolysate manganese chelate] (30mg), copper [copper(II) protein hydrolysate chelate] (12mg), iodine [potassium iodide] (1.4mg), choline chloride (1800mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken protein”. 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
Chicken protein (26%)Named meat26%
maize (20%)Grain20%
peas (16%)Vegetable, fruit or plant16%
poultry fat (10%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient10%
pea protein (9%)Vegetable, fruit or plant9%
salmon protein (6%)Named meat6%
hydrolysed poultry protein (5%)Meat, animal not named5%
dried apple pulp (3.6%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3.6%
hydrolysed poultry liver (2%)Meat, animal not named2%
salmon oil (1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
potassium chloride (0.4%)Other0.4%
sodium chloride (0.3%)Other0.3%
pea mealVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried parsley (0.1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
mannan-oligosaccharides (0.0198%)Other0.02%
fructo-oligosaccharides (0.015%)Other0.015%
mojave yucca (0.015%).Other0.015%

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Nutrition

Protein 39% and carbs about 32%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein35%39%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat17%19%
Carbohydrate~29%~32%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.6%2.9%
Ash6.8%7.6%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

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

Energy367 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 38

The kind of meat scored best (8.2 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    16.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label13.7 / 35 points

      39% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level3.2 / 10 points

      Protein is 38.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    9.4 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 31.8% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.2 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed5.2 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 43% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat3 / 3 points

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.

No ingredient deductions.

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

Against other dry foods

Top 25% of dry foods. 29 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry 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 →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 32% to 17% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

4 noted: hydrolysed proteins, liver, parsley and 1 more. 28 flagged nothing.

  • 4 noted
  • 28 nothing flagged
28 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), choline chloride, folic acid (folate), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), peas, potassium chloride, poultry fat, processed animal protein, salmon oil, salt (sodium chloride), tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UKNew Recipe! Economy Pack: 2 x 12kg · £71.99New Recipe! Economy Pack: 2 x 12kg£71.99£3.00/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 12kg · £37.49New Recipe! 12kg£37.49£3.12/kgVisit
Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 1kg · £3.79Out of stockNew Recipe! 1kg£3.79£3.79/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 12kg£37.49£3.12/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 1kg£3.79 (out of stock)£3.79/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! Economy Pack: 2 x 12kg£71.99£3.00/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 12kg£37.49£3.12/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 1kg£3.79 (out of stock)£3.79/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! Economy Pack: 2 x 12kg£71.99£3.00/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 12kg£37.49£3.12/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! 1kg£3.79£3.79/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKNew Recipe! Economy Pack: 2 x 12kg£71.99£3.00/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

2 dry foods score 8 to 9 points higher and cost up to 23% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
57% this food 39%
Carbs
about 36% this food about 32%
To feed
44% less per 1,000 kcal

+9 pointsCompare

Meat
68.3% this food 39%
Carbs
about 43% this food about 32%
To feed
23% more per 1,000 kcal

+8 pointsCompare

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

Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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