Opti Life

Opti Life Adult Care: Skin Care Medium & Maxi review

Name: Opti Life Adult Care: Skin Care Medium & Maxi
Brand: Opti Life

51.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Two jobs, each made in two kibble sizes, and all four land in our Good band. Lamb and rice for digestion, salmon and rice for skin and coat. Glucosamine is dosed in print on all four and the fibre is declared to the percentage.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Easily upset digestion: the Digestion pair is lamb and rice with nothing exotic behind it
A dull coat. The Skin Care recipes lead on dehydrated salmon and add salmon oil at 1%
Small dogs and big ones, with each job made as a mini and as a medium and maxi kibble
Stiffening dogs, glucosamine printed at 500 mg/kg on the larger bags and 250 mg/kg on the minis
A settled gut routine, with FOS and MOS declared and beet pulp behind them

Worth watching

Animal fat and hydrolysed proteins never named, so none can anchor a strict elimination trial
Fish in every recipe, as dehydrated salmon or salmon oil
Cellulose at 4%, a purified fibre and not the whole-vegetable sort

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

How this scores

How we score

51.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults, the minis for small dogs and the others for medium and large. Pick the kibble size first, then weigh the daily amount from the label's table.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Digestion Mini 53.9
Skin Care Mini 52.4
Digestion Medium 51.2
Skin Care Medium 51.2

All four Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Almost nothing separates the four, so the choice is which job you are buying; the unnamed fat and hydrolysed protein keep them level with the field.

What's in it

Dehydrated salmon25%Weighed after its water has gone, so this much of the finished kibble really is that animal.
Rice, rice flour25% (rice)The starch, and the cereal most often chosen for delicate digestion.
Animal fatA working ingredient with no animal named.
Cellulose, beet pulp4% and 1%Beet pulp ferments; the cellulose is purified fibre that passes through almost untouched.
Linseed, brewer's yeastPlant omega 3 and B vitamins.
Hydrolysed animal proteinsNo species given, which rules out a strict single-protein diet.
Salmon oil1%Marine omega 3.
Minerals, FOS, MOS, sea algae0.1% each (FOS, MOS)Prebiotics for the gut's own bacteria; the algae adds iodine.
Glucosamine, rosemary, green tea500 mg/kg (glucosamine)

A full panel dosed line by line, and the only recipe of the four with biotin, at 4 mg per kilo, beside taurine at 1100 mg.

Named ingredients

Salmon (dehydrated, 25%), rice (25%), rice flour, animal fat, vegetable fibres (cellulose 4%, beet pulp 1%), linseed, minerals, hydrolysed animal proteins, brewer's yeast, salmon oil (1%), FOS (0.1%), MOS (0.1%), sea algae (Ascophyllum nodosum), glucosamine 500 mg/kg, rosemary (15 mg/kg), green tea (10 mg/kg).

Against the range

Meat: Dehydrated salmon, 25%; Same on the Mini; lamb on the Digestion pair
Biotin: 4 mg per kilo; On no other recipe
Fat, as fed: 14.0%; 17.0% on the Minis

The one to pick for a coat that needs the most help, with biotin no sibling carries.

Every recipe opens on a dehydrated named meat at 23% to 25% with rice at the same share, then rice flour and an unnamed animal fat. Cellulose at 4% and beet pulp at 1% supply the fibre, FOS and MOS sit at 0.1% each, and salmon oil and linseed are on all four.

Protein converts to between 25.0% and 26.1% of dry matter, on an assumed 8% moisture. The meat (lamb or salmon), the kibble size and the glucosamine dose are what change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

395 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

48.3%

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

34.3%

Carbs

45.7%

Veg

5.9%

Oils

7.7%

Other

6.4%

Pricing & size