Why we ran this test
This one started with an email. A reader wrote in worried about a soft lump she had just noticed on her twelve-year-old lab, asking which turkey tail powder was actually worth buying. So I went looking. Two products kept coming up, both bacon-flavored, both built around turkey tail, and both throwing a probiotic into the mix. That last part is what made me want to test them side by side.
The first is Lumiqour Turkey Tail+. It puts its numbers right on the label: 1,000 mg of turkey tail plus 1 Billion CFU of live probiotic per scoop, and it comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee if it does nothing for your dog. The second is Fifth & Fido Turkey Tail+, which runs $29.99 a tub and adds a second mushroom, reishi, on top of the turkey tail. The catch is that Fifth & Fido never lists a single dosage. No mushroom mg, no probiotic CFU, nothing you can actually check.
So I fed both, daily, for about three months. Senior dogs with benign fatty lumps. Scoops measured. Bowls watched. Lumps checked every week. Here is what I found.
At a glance: Lumiqour vs. Fifth & Fido Turkey Tail+
The two formulas side by side before I get into the day-to-day details.
| Spec | Lumiqour Turkey Tail+ | Fifth & Fido Turkey Tail+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99/jar, Buy 1 Get 1 Free (60 servings) | $29.99 per tub, 100 servings |
| Mushroom Dose | 1,000 mg Turkey Tail, printed on the label | Turkey tail amount not listed |
| Added Probiotic | 1 Billion CFU L. acidophilus, disclosed | L. acidophilus included, CFU not listed |
| Mushroom Variety | Turkey Tail, single focused dose | Turkey Tail plus Reishi, two mushrooms |
| Flavor | Bacon flavored, picky-eater friendly | Bacon flavored, picky-eater friendly |
| Certification & Testing | Lab tested, third-party verified | None stated on the page |
| Made For | Senior dogs with fatty lumps | Dogs of any breed |
| Money-Back Guarantee | 90-day money-back guarantee | No money-back guarantee stated |
| Vet Backing | Vet formulated and vet approved | No vet formulation stated |
Green marks the better pick in each row.
Formula quality and potency
This is the part I cared about most. Your dog eats this every single day, so the dose and whether you can actually see what's in it matter more than anything on the label. I read both ingredient panels line by line and tracked how each one went down over 90 days.
- A full 1,000 mg of organic Turkey Tail in every scoop, printed right on the panel so you know exactly what your dog gets
- 1 Billion CFU of Lactobacillus acidophilus, listed by the number instead of just named on the label
- Lab tested and third-party verified, so the dose on the jar is the dose in the bowl
- Two ingredients only and no fillers, so your vet can read the whole label in one glance
- Bacon flavor means the dose actually gets eaten instead of left sitting in the bowl
- Turkey Tail plus a second mushroom, Reishi, which is a fair point in its favor for broader mushroom variety
- Also carries Lactobacillus acidophilus, so it has a real probiotic in the mix too
- The catch: no mushroom mg and no CFU count anywhere on the page, so you can't check the potency
- No lab testing or third-party verification stated, so you're taking the label at face value
- Bacon flavor as well, which helps a picky eater actually finish it
Both are real combos, and both pair mushrooms with a probiotic. Fifth & Fido earns a fair point for adding Reishi on top of the Turkey Tail. Where they split is what you can actually see. Lumiqour prints its numbers, a disclosed 1,000 mg of Turkey Tail and 1 Billion CFU of acidophilus, and backs them with lab testing. Fifth & Fido names the same kinds of ingredients but never lists the amounts, so there's no way to know how much of anything is really in each scoop. If a second mushroom matters most to you, Fifth & Fido has the edge. If you want a dose you can verify, Lumiqour is the one that shows its work.
What's actually in each scoop
Both lean on organic mushrooms, but how they build the scoop is where they split. What each one lists, and what it leaves off the panel, tells you most of what you need to know.
- Two ingredients you can name: organic Turkey Tail mushroom at 1,000 mg and Lactobacillus acidophilus at 1 Billion CFU
- No fillers, no synthetic binders, nothing added to pad out the scoop
- Lab tested and third-party verified, and formulated with practicing veterinarians
- Turkey Tail is the one mushroom with the deepest research behind it for immune support
- Every jar ships with a free e-guide: monitoring charts and questions to ask your vet
- Bacon-flavored so the scoop disappears into dinner without a fight
- Turkey Tail extract plus Reishi extract, so you get two mushrooms instead of one
- Lactobacillus acidophilus is in there too, so the probiotic box is genuinely ticked
- Bacon flavored as well, which is a real help for the picky eaters
- A bigger tub at 100 servings, so it stretches further before you reorder
- The gap: no mushroom mg and no CFU listed anywhere, so the amounts stay a mystery
Fifth & Fido earns credit here for a fuller mix: two mushrooms and a probiotic, plus more servings in the tub. The honest problem is the panel never tells you how much of any of it you're feeding, since there are no mg and no CFU printed. Lumiqour keeps it to two ingredients on purpose and lists both amounts out in the open, 1,000 mg of Turkey Tail and 1 Billion CFU of acidophilus, with lab testing to back the numbers up. If you just want a broader ingredient list, Fifth & Fido has more names on it. If you'd rather know the exact dose going into the bowl, Lumiqour is built for exactly that.
Taste and how the dogs reacted
A supplement your dog won't eat is just expensive powder in the cupboard. I tracked how fast each one got eaten, whether the picky tester balked, and how that held up over the 90 days. Taste is the main reason a daily scoop quietly stops happening.
- Both testers ate it mixed into dinner from day one, no coaxing required
- The bacon flavor is doing real work; even the fussy one licked the bowl clean
- Powder is fine enough that it coats the food instead of settling at the bottom of the bowl
- A quick scoop into dinner and the bacon smell pulled both dogs straight to the bowl
- The smell is meaty rather than mushroomy, which seems to be what won the dogs over
- Also bacon flavored, and both dogs took to it once it was stirred into dinner
- The bacon note reads a touch lighter than Lumiqour's, but it still won over my fussy tester
- Fine powder that mixes in cleanly and doesn't pool at the bottom of the bowl
- Day one it went down with no coaxing, same as the other jar
- Accepted on plain kibble too, though a spoon of wet food made it a sure thing
This one is genuinely close. Both are bacon flavored powders, and both of my dogs cleaned their bowls with either jar. Lumiqour's bacon scent comes across a little stronger, so my picky senior went for it a hair faster on plain kibble, but Fifth & Fido was right behind it and had no real trouble either. If taste is your only worry, either one will get eaten. I gave Lumiqour the slight nod here, but I'm splitting hairs.
Daily use and dosing
This is the routine you actually live with every morning, from getting it into the bowl to keeping it stocked. Both dose by weight, so the real difference is everything that happens around the scoop.
- One to three scoops a day set by your dog’s weight, so the dose scales up for bigger dogs
- The scoop sits right in the jar, so portioning it into dinner takes a couple of seconds
- Thirty servings per jar, about a month for a smaller dog and less for a big one
- The buy-one-get-one offer means you're rarely down to your last scoop
- Reseal the jar and the powder stays dry, no clumping over the month
- The free e-guide includes a simple chart to track the lump week by week
- Same idea: sprinkle the powder onto food, no pills or mixing steps to fuss with
- One tub holds a hundred servings, so it lasts noticeably longer between reorders
- The bacon flavor helps it go down for a picky eater, same as the other jar
- The dosing amount isn't spelled out by weight the way Lumiqour's is, so you're guessing a bit more
- Fine powder pours easily, though I'd go slow to avoid overshooting the scoop
- No subscription option surfaced, so restocking is a manual reorder each time
Day to day these feel almost identical: shake a scoop of bacon powder over dinner and you're done. Fifth & Fido earns a real point here with a hundred servings per tub, so you reorder far less often than with Lumiqour's thirty per jar. What tips me back toward Lumiqour is the dosing: it lays out exactly how many scoops go with your dog’s weight, from one scoop up to twenty-four pounds to three for the big dogs, while Fifth & Fido leaves you eyeballing it. Both are easy. One tells you the amount, the other stretches further per tub.
Vet backing and safety
Both brands talk about immune support and lumps in their copy. We pulled apart what each company actually puts behind those promises, and who, if anyone, stands behind the formula.
- Formulated with practicing veterinarians who see fatty lipomas in senior dogs every week
- Built around Turkey Tail and gut-immune research in dogs, framed as wellness support rather than a cure
- Named DVMs on record, with input from veterinary oncology, canine gastroenterology, and orthopedic surgery
- Two simple ingredients at doses a vet can read in one glance, which makes it easy to clear with your own vet
- Positioned to be used alongside regular checkups and monitoring, not as a replacement for veterinary care
- The free e-guide literally includes questions to ask your vet, which I genuinely appreciated
- Pairs two mushrooms, turkey tail and reishi, with a probiotic, so the ingredient story itself is genuine
- The product page states no vet formulation and names no veterinarian behind the blend
- Leans on bold "reduce lumps and bumps" style claims without dog-specific studies to support them
- No clinical citations, no lab testing, and no third-party verification that I could find on the page
- Amounts are not listed, so you can't tell how much mushroom or probiotic each scoop actually delivers
- Powder blends like this are usually well tolerated, but there's no published dog trial to point to
Lumiqour is the one that names its vets and frames the claims carefully: support for lumps, not a promise to dissolve them, with the note that it works alongside your vet rather than instead of one. Fifth & Fido has a real two-mushroom-plus-probiotic blend, but its page states no vet formulation, names no veterinarian, and leans on bolder lump claims with nothing published to back them. If you want a formula you can hand your vet and talk through, Lumiqour gives you more to work with, mostly because it discloses its doses. Fifth & Fido's ingredient list is honest enough, it just asks you to take the potency on faith.
Guarantee and returns
A money-back guarantee is the cheapest signal you get about how a company sees its own product. The gap between these two is wide.
- A 90-day results-or-your-money-back guarantee, which is a long runway for a daily supplement
- The guarantee is tied to using it daily, so it rewards giving the formula a fair, consistent run
- Returns and refunds go directly through Lumiqour rather than a third-party marketplace
- Free worldwide shipping kicks in on the multi-jar bundles
- Sold through its own store and the usual marketplaces, so returns follow the retailer's standard policy
- The product page states no results-based money-back guarantee on the supplement itself
- With no certifications or lab testing listed either, you have less to fall back on if it disappoints
- If a tub doesn't agree with your dog, you're leaning on the store's return window, not a brand promise
A guarantee tells you how much a company believes its own product. Lumiqour puts a 90-day money-back promise behind the results, which is a real commitment for a supplement you have to use consistently to judge. Fifth & Fido's page states no results guarantee, so you're covered by whatever return policy the store you bought from offers and nothing more. If you want a no-risk way to test whether it actually helps your dog's lump, the 90-day window is the safer bet.
The real cost of ownership
Fifth & Fido is the cheaper option here. Its $29.99 tub runs about $0.30 a serving and packs 100 servings, so on sticker price it wins outright. Both supplements are dosed by weight, so a bigger dog goes through either one faster. Lumiqour costs more per scoop, even after its Buy 1 Get 1 Free and bundle deals. Here is what a year of daily use looks like, and what that extra money is actually buying.
Per serving, Fifth & Fido is the cheaper powder, no question. At $29.99 for 100 servings it comes in near $0.30 a scoop, and Lumiqour lands higher at roughly $0.55 to $0.66 even with its Buy 1 Get 1 Free and bundle pricing. What that extra money buys is a scoop you can actually verify: a disclosed 1,000 mg of turkey tail and 1 Billion CFU of probiotic, lab tested and third-party checked, sitting behind a 90-day money-back guarantee. Fifth & Fido wins if you just want the lowest price. Lumiqour wins if you'd rather pay a bit more for a dose you can read on the label and try risk-free.
Price and value
This is the part most buyers skip. Here is exactly what you get at checkout and what a month of daily use actually costs.
- ✅ A disclosed 1,000 mg of organic Turkey Tail mushroom in every scoop
- ✅ 1 Billion CFU of Lactobacillus acidophilus, printed right on the label
- ✅ Lab tested and 3rd-party verified, so the dose is one you can check
- ✅ Vet formulated for senior dogs carrying fatty lumps
- ✅ Bacon flavored, so even picky senior dogs finish their scoop
- ✅ 60 servings across the Buy 1 Get 1 Free pack
- ✅ 90-day money-back guarantee if it does not work out
- ✅ More than 100K jars sold to date
- ✅ Two mushrooms in the blend, turkey tail plus reishi
- ✅ Includes a probiotic, Lactobacillus acidophilus
- ✅ Bacon flavored, so most dogs take it without a fight
- ✅ Cheaper sticker price and more servings per tub
- ❌ No mushroom mg or probiotic CFU listed anywhere, so you cannot verify the dose
- ❌ No lab testing or certifications stated on the page
- ❌ No money-back guarantee mentioned
- ❌ One flavor only
On sticker price Fifth & Fido wins. It is $29.99 a tub with 100 servings, which works out to roughly $0.30 a serving, cheaper than Lumiqour even with the Buy 1 Get 1 Free deal. What you give up is knowing what you are buying. Fifth & Fido never lists how much turkey tail, reishi, or probiotic is in each scoop. Lumiqour puts a disclosed 1,000 mg of turkey tail and 1 Billion CFU on the label, adds lab testing and 3rd-party verification, and backs it with a 90-day money-back guarantee. If you want the lowest price and are fine trusting the label at face value, Fifth & Fido works. If you want a dose you can check and try risk-free, Lumiqour is worth the extra bit.