Opti Life

Opti Life Baby review

Name: Opti Life Baby
Brand: Opti Life

42.7/100Average

DryPuppy

A starter kibble for the youngest pups, with a feeding guide that opens at 0.2kg of bodyweight. Calcium is printed and inside the window growing bone should be reared to. It lands in our Average band, held there by the starch and two unnamed animal entries.

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Our view

Likely to suit

The smallest pups, with the guide climbing in small steps from 0.2kg
Rearing plans that need the calcium line, here at 1.3% of dry matter
Pups fed chicken
Unsettled digestion: psyllium, montmorillonite clay, FOS and MOS are all on the list
Early joint cover, with glucosamine at 500 mg/kg

Worth watching

A starchy bowl, carbohydrate at 45.6% of dry matter against 39.0% for the typical puppy kibble
Animal fat and hydrolysed animal protein with no species, which matters on a strict exclusion trial
Krill and salmon oil in a chicken recipe
No declared moisture, so every dry-matter figure rests on the standard 8%

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

How this scores

How we score

42.7/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for very young puppies. Growth rewrites the amount week by week, from 20g a day at 0.2kg to 200g a day by 6kg, so track the guide on the pack.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Opti Life Baby 42.7

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The everyday basics are in order, and the starch share and unnamed animal entries are what hold it a shelf below most puppy kibbles.

What's in it

Chicken30%Written plainly, which usually means fresh, with water that leaves in cooking.
Rice, rice flour30% riceLevel with the meat on the label as printed.
Animal fatNo species named.
Linseed, vegetable fibres, minerals
Hydrolysed animal proteinUnnamed too.
Brewer's yeast, salmon oilB vitamins, and fish in a chicken recipe.
Montmorillonite clay, psylliumA binder to firm loose stools, and bulk.
Krill, FOS, dried whole eggs, carob pods, MOSPrebiotics for the gut bacteria; carob is a mild traditional settler.
Lecithin, sea algae, salts of fatty acids, rosemary

Every entry dosed, led by vitamins A, D3 and E with taurine and glucosamine, trace minerals down to selenium, and clinoptilolite and sepiolite as stabilising clays.

Calcium is declared and converts to 1.3% of dry matter, inside the range for growing bone.

Named ingredients

Chicken (30%), rice (30%), rice flour, animal fat, linseed, vegetable fibres, minerals, hydrolysed animal protein, brewer's yeast, salmon oil, montmorillonite clay, psyllium, krill, FOS, dried whole eggs, carob pods, MOS, lecithin, sea algae (Ascophyllum nodosum), salts of fatty acids, rosemary.

Against the range

Chicken and rice share the head of the list at 30% each, with rice flour behind. The back half is a small digestive kit of psyllium, clay, FOS and MOS, and calcium is declared.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

357 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

45.6%

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

32.7%

Carbs

49.8%

Veg

3.3%

Oils

6.9%

Other

7.4%

Pricing & size