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Lukullus · cold-pressed

Lukullus Cold-Pressed Barbary Duck & Lamb review

A solid, honest cold-pressed food. Just 21% declared meat content. Feeding it costs about 88p a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 73/100 Good
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Top 52%scores higher than 48% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£0.88per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 53% of cold-pressed foods
21%declared meat content
Germanybrand origin

Where the points went

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

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 73/100 across 38 ingredients (declared percentages used for 20, position estimates for the rest).
29.3 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (gelatine) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 100% of the recipe (+6); meat sources named (+2); variable-composition wording - fixed-formula points withheld.
8 / 15
Additives
Declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being diatomaceous earth (-2.7).
7.3 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Meat content ~100% fresh-equivalent (added up from every named meat on the label; dried meats counted at their fresh weight).
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 49% dry matter (high); fat 10.3% DM in the healthy band; moisture not declared - 8% assumed for the dry-matter maths; fibre 5.3% DM (+1.8); ash 8.6% DM - sensible mineral load (+1.6); functional extras: omega-3 source, named botanicals, joint support (+2).
6.4 / 10
Processing
Cold-pressed - lower temperatures than kibble.
7 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
73 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 73 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 29.3 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is declared meat content at 15 of 15.

The label declares 21% meat, which is a low figure, and a declared low figure is still more honest than silence, and the ingredient list is only partly specific.

At about 88p 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.

Meat & fish

Original recipe: Dried and ground Barbary duck meat 21%dried ground New Zealand lamb 10%gelatinedried egg yolkDried duck 21%dried lamb 10%hydrolysed poultry liver

Carbs & grains

rice germrice 8.8%

Fruit & veg

dried potato flakes 12%dried ground sweet potato 10%dried seaweeddried alfalfabeet pulpdried pears 2%dried apples 2%dried blueberries 0.3%potato flakes 10.5%sweet potato 10%dried beet pulpdried apple pomace 4%blueberries 0.3%

Oils & fats

poultry fatsalmon oil 5.5%linseed oil 1.5%

Supplements & extras

dried herbs 3.5%carawaydried ground carobclaydiatomaceous earthdried ground yucca schidigeraseaweed meallinseeds 94%)herb mix 3.5%egg powderhemp seeds 1.5%green-lipped mussel extract 0.5%yucca schidigera extract
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
Nutritional additives: Original recipe: Vitamin A (11,800 IU), vitamin D3 (1180 IU), vitamin E (230mg), vitamin B1 [as thiamine mononitrate] (4.4mg), vitamin B2 [as riboflavin] (8.6mg), vitamin B6 [pyridoxine hydrochloride] (5.2mg), vitamin B12 (53mcg), biotin [as D-(+)-biotin] (255mcg), folic acid (0.44mg), niacin (27mg), vitamin C [as L-ascorbic acid] (175mg), pantothenic acid [as calcium D-pantothenate] (9.8mg), choline chloride (1560mg), manganese [as manganese(II) oxide] (59mg), copper [as copper(II) oxide] (14mg), zinc [as zinc oxide] (75mg), iodine [as calcium iodate] (1.8mg). New recipe: Vitamin A (22,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1200 IU), vitamin E (100mg), vitamin B1 (9mg), vitamin B2 (11mg), vitamin B6 (4mg), vitamin B12 (59mcg), biotin (400mcg), folic acid (1mg), niacin (45mg), vitamin C (33mg), calcium-D-pantothenate (22mg), choline chloride (780mg), zinc [zinc sulphate monohydrate] (84mg), iron [ferrous(II)-sulphate monohydrate] (57mg), manganese [manganous(II)-oxide] (20mg), copper [cupric(II)-sulphate pentahydrate] (10mg), iodine [calcium iodate anhydrous] (1mg), selenium [sodium selenite] (0.1mg), DL-methionine (2500mg). Technological additives: New recipe: Binding agent. Energy per kg: Original recipe: 3289kcal New recipe: ME (FEDIAF) 14.08 MJ / 3366kcal

Feeding & cost

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

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
1.5 kg--
10 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 164 g a day = £0.87 / day, £26.45 / 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, 325 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £5.33 / 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

27.2 % DM
Directory average: 31.2

Fat

10.3 % DM
Directory average: 13.3

Est. carbs

48.6 % DM
Directory average: 43.2

Fibre

5.3 % DM
Directory average: 3.7

Ash

8.6 % DM
Directory average: 8.6

Moisture isn't declared on this label - dry-matter figures assume 8% (typical for a dry food) and are marked estimated.

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

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