K9 Optimum

K9 Optimum Adult Can review

Name: K9 Optimum Adult Can
Brand: K9 Optimum

66.1/100Good

WetAdult

Good, and a tin that tells you more than most. Chicken is quantified at 50%, the calorie figure is printed on the label, and the small working extras are all named. What holds it a step back is the mineral load: calcium converts to 3.0% of dry matter, high for adult maintenance.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want a number against the meat
Dogs kept off grain; the little starch here is potato
Older joints, with glucosamine and chondroitin written into the recipe
A printed calorie figure, 95.5 kcal per 100g, for anyone counting
Poor drinkers. Four fifths of the tin is moisture
Smaller dogs, since the label puts a 6kg dog on one 390g tin a day

Worth watching

Calcium at 3.0% of dry matter and ash at 16.0%. Raise it with your vet if there is any urinary or kidney history
Poultry plasma at 1% names no bird, so duck, goose and turkey stay in the picture
Salmon oil puts fish in the tin

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

66.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Check the joint extras against anything your vet already prescribes, since neither carries a printed dose.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

K9 Optimum Adult Can 66.1

All one Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A well described everyday tin that gives up its ground on mineral load and very little else.

What's in it

Chicken50%Easy to digest and rarely refused, though chicken is also the intolerance seen most often.
MineralsUnusually high on the list. This is where the 16.0% ash comes from.
Potato starchClose to pure starch, there to hold the food together.
Poultry plasma1%The liquid fraction of poultry blood, dried. Quantified, though no bird is named.
Dried carrot, dried potato
Flaxseed oil, salmon oilThe omega 3 sources. The salmon oil means this tin is not fish free.
Dried seaweedA natural iodine source.
Chicory root powderInulin for the useful gut bacteria.
Glucosamine HCl, chondroitinNo dose printed for either. A small kindness to a working joint.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, trace minerals as sulphates, iodine as calcium iodate, and L-carnitine at 25mg per kilo, which helps move fat into muscle to be burned.

Calcium converts to 3.0% of dry matter, above what most adult tins carry.

Named ingredients

Chicken (50%), Minerals, Potato Starch, Poultry Plasma (1%), Dried Carrot, Dried Potato, Flaxseed Oil, Salmon Oil, Dried Seaweed, Chicory Root Powder, Glucosamine Hcl, Chondroitin

Against the range

A single grain-free tin: chicken at 50%, a small potato starch base, and a run of named extras from flaxseed oil to chondroitin. Minerals sit second on the list, and that one placement explains most of the analysis.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

95.5 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.1%

Ash

3.2%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

30%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

16%

Carbs

13.5%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

51%

Added water

29.4%

Carbs

9.4%

Veg

Oils

1.2%

Other

5.9%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £5.13 (RRP)
Pack: 390g (a 12 x 390g case, SKU 55031, exists in the catalogue but its page is withdrawn)
A 15kg dog eats: 780 to 960 g a day, 870 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £4.46

A 15kg adult runs to 780 to 960 grams a day on the label's table, so a dog that size goes through more than two tins daily.

Middle of the market for a wet food, and the price runs a little ahead of what the analysis shows.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.