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Lily’s Kitchen Senior Recipe for Older Dogs review

A genuinely strong wet food. 60% declared meat content leads the label, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. Feeding it costs about £5.62 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 80/100 Very good
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Top 34%scores higher than 66% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Very goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£5.62 approx.per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 10% of wet foods
60%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin
88kcal per 100 g

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 82/100 across 12 ingredients (declared percentages used for 6, position estimates for the rest).
32.9 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 67% of the recipe (+4); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
13 / 15
Additives
Added sugars/sweeteners (-4).
6 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 60%.
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 7% dry matter (low); fat 25.5% DM is high (obesity/pancreatitis watch) (-1.4); fibre 4.0% DM (+2); ash 12.0% DM - unusually high mineral/bone load; functional extras: omega-3 source, joint support, named botanicals (+2).
6.6 / 10
Processing
Retorted wet food.
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
80 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 80 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 32.9 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is declared meat content at 15 of 15.

The label declares 60% meat, which is unusually specific - most brands never print a figure at all, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

At about £5.62 a day to feed a 10kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it broadly does.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Additives (as declared on the label)
Vitamin D3 200 IU, Vitamin E 20 mg, Zinc Chelate of Amino Acids Hydrate 15 mg, Copper II Chelate of Amino Acids Hydrate 1 mg, Manganese Chelate of Amino Acids Hydrate 1.4 mg, Iodine as Calcium Iodate 0.75 mg. Locust Bean Gum 1g.

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
400 g£3.70£9.25

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 607 g a day = £5.61 / day, £170.54 / month.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 10 kg dog works out near 534 kcal).
  2. Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 88 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £9.25 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

52 % DM
Directory average: 42.2

Fat

25.5 % DM
Directory average: 27.7

Est. carbs

6.5 % DM
Directory average: 18.4

Fibre

4 % DM
Directory average: 4.1

Ash

12 % DM
Directory average: 10.8

Energy

88 kcal/100g
Directory average: 110.1

Carbohydrates are estimated: 100% minus protein, fat, fibre, ash and moisture.

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