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Life-changing dog food for your Golden Retriever
Golden Retrievers are bundles of sunshine that need a healthy, nutritious diet to fuel their enthusiasm for life.
Lyka’s real food meals are formulated with care and expertise, to keep your Golden Retriever in tip-top shape — supporting healthy skin, weight, and joints.
Get your Golden Retriever’s flexible meal plan today.
How real food keeps your Golden Retriever healthy
The best food for your Golden Retriever is made from high-quality proteins, healthy fats, and nutrient-dense ingredients that nourish them from the inside out.
Developed by Co-founder and Integrative Veterinarian Dr Matthew Muir alongside board-certified veterinary nutritionists, Lyka meals are made with fresh ingredients to promote a healthy heart, mobile joints, and supple skin and coat.
Features anti-inflammatory agents for healthy joints
Supports existing or predisposed joint issues, with powerful anti-inflammatory omega-3 from sardines and fish oil to reduce painful inflammation.
Rich in skin-loving ingredients
Improves skin health by protecting cells from damage with nutrients from leafy green vegetables like green cabbage, kale, and bok choy.
Avoids allergy flare-ups
Free from wheat, corn, soy, lectins or dairy that can cause diet-driven inflammation, food allergies, and intolerances that lead to skin flare-ups.
Prevents excess weight gain
Custom-portioned servings with high quality protein and low GI carbohydrates to release energy gradually, helping your pup feel fuller for longer.
Promotes heart health
Lyka’s meals contain ingredients known to support heart health like mushrooms, potassium-rich broccoli for a strong heart rhythm, and chia seeds for optimal blood pressure.
Choose from 6 meals for targeted support
Meeting AAFCO and FEDIAF standards is just the start. Lyka meals are formulated by an expert team of board-certified veterinary nutritionists to ensure they're balanced for all life stages.
Hear why Lyka’s experts recommend real food for Golden Retrievers
"Lyka meals are packed with antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids to support skin and joint health for your Golden Retriever, while avoiding common allergens found in highly processed pet foods."
“Our high-protein, low-carb formulations help manage weight, with custom-portioned serving sizes to fit your Golden Retriever’s individual needs. Lyka is made with quality ingredients that help your dog feel fuller for longer.”
Better for them. Easier for you.
Healthier dog food, delivered conveniently on a flexible plan.
Perfectly portioned.
Just peel and serve.
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Choose your flexible meal plan
Get a custom meal plan based on your dog’s health needs.
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Cooked daily, delivered direct
Meals are prepared daily, snap-frozen and delivered direct.
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Enjoy total flexibility and control
Switch up meals, skip an order, pause, delay or cancel.
Lyka Supplements for resilient skin, coat, and nails
Boost skin health and immune resilience to allergens, with ingredients like detoxifying burdock root, flaxseed oil, natural antioxidants, and curcumin extract which has anti-inflammatory properties. These inclusions reduce oxidative stress: leading to healthier skin, coat, and nails for your Golden Retriever.
Real food. Real results.
With over 27 million Lyka meals devoured around the country, hundreds of Golden Retrievers are thriving with optimal heart health, nourished skin, and strong joints.
Nothing but the best!
"Our beautiful Golden Retriever had serious food allergies. After trying multiple dry foods and raw food diets we still couldn’t get his guts right. Constant diarrhoea, lethargy and visits to the vet. Since having him on Lyka we have seen amazing results."
Alexandra and Benson
Your Golden Retriever FAQs, answered
What’s the best food for Golden Retrievers with skin allergies?
Lyka’s real food meals can promote balance and diversity in your Golden Retriever’s microbiome, to improve their immune function and nourish their skin.
Each ingredient is selected for its health benefits like anti-histaminic shiitake mushrooms, anti-inflammatory spirulina and omega-3 from fish oil. Lyka meals also include skin-loving zinc, omega-6 from safflower oil and vitamin E oil to boost their skin barrier.
What should I feed my Golden Retriever with joint inflammation?
The best dog food for Golden Retrievers with joint issues is one high in anti-inflammatory ingredients, antioxidants, and omega-3 fatty acids.
These diets can ease the pain or discomfort of inflammation, while encouraging tissue repair and improved mobility.
What is the best Golden Retriever puppy food?
Puppies need food that contains the right amount of nutrients to support their physical and mental growth at a healthy rate.
Contrary to popular belief, puppies don’t need special puppy food if their diet is already nutrient-rich and contains an appropriate amount and balance of calcium and phosphorus, making Lyka the ideal food.
Lyka meals are custom portioned to suit your Golden Retriever puppy’s breed and growth milestones, so they get the right nutrients for their age.
What’s the best food for an overweight Golden Retriever?
Highly processed foods often use high glycaemic index carbohydrates, which has been linked to obesity in dogs.
Lyka avoids these ingredients, with custom serving sizes and lean proteins in our line-up to support weight management.
Why is my Golden Retriever so itchy?
Certain ingredients in highly processed dog food — like grain-fed proteins and cereal grains — can cause inflammation, making skin issues worse for Golden Retrievers with allergies or intolerances.
Switching to real food like Lyka that’s low in carbohydrates and free of some common allergens (like soy, wheat, and dairy) can reduce flare-ups and boost skin health with healthy amounts of omega-3 and targeted ingredients.
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Lyka's nutrition philosophy
100% real ingredients
All our ingredients are made for human consumption. Yes, we taste-test them ourselves!
Vet-formulated
Each meal is designed by our co-founder and Integrative Veterinarian, Dr. Matthew Muir, alongside a team of Board-Certified Veterinary Nutritionists.
Australian-made & owned
Every meal is made locally, with 85-97% of ingredients sourced here in Australia.
Delivered fast & fresh
Cooked fresh and delivered snap frozen to lock in nutrition and taste without preservatives. Meals are delivered directly to your door, delivery included.
Green in name & nature
Proud to be a Certified B Corp and Australia’s only carbon and plastic-negative dog food company.
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