Opti Life

Opti Life Puppy Care: Skin Care All Breeds review

Name: Opti Life Puppy Care: Skin Care All Breeds
Brand: Opti Life

53.1/100Good

DryPuppy

Flavour

Two growth kibbles on one frame, aimed at two different jobs: digestion on lamb, skin on salmon. Both sit in our Good band. The gut side is unusually itemised, with prebiotics and butyric acid salts printed on each label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A puppy with a specific brief, since you choose between a digestion recipe and a skin recipe
Owners who want dehydrated meat first on the list
Pups fine on rice, the starch in both
Early joint cover, with glucosamine at 500 mg/kg written into each
Anyone who likes the gut support itemised. FOS, MOS and butyric acid salts are all on the label

Worth watching

No calcium figure on either label, though both are sold for large and giant breeds. Ask the maker before a big pup goes on it
Animal fat and hydrolysed animal protein with no species named
Fish in both, with krill in each as well

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

How this scores

How we score

53.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, toy to giant. The pack chart runs by expected adult size, so start there and adjust by your pup's shape.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Digestion All Breeds 55.1
Skin Care All Breeds 53.1

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two travel together, and what holds both back is the same pair of gaps: calcium undeclared and the animal entries unnamed.

What's in it

Salmon, dehydrated30%The only animal named in the recipe.
Rice, rice flour30% rice
Animal fatUnnamed, which keeps it short of single protein.
Vegetable fibres: cellulose, beet pulp3% and 1%
Linseed, brewer's yeast, minerals
Hydrolysed animal proteinsNo species given.
Salmon oil1%Added on top for the coat.
Krill, sea algae0.5% krill
FOS, MOS, butyric acid salts0.5% and 0.1%
Glucosamine, rosemary, green tea500, 18 and 12 mg/kg

Biotin at 2 mg joins taurine at 1100 mg, both fitting a skin and coat recipe, with vitamins A, D3, E and C and the trace minerals.

No calcium figure on the label. For a large-breed puppy, ask the maker for it.

Named ingredients

Salmon (dehydrated, 30%), rice (30%), rice flour, animal fat, vegetable fibres (cellulose 3%, beet pulp 1%), linseed, brewer's yeast, minerals, hydrolysed animal proteins, salmon oil (1%), krill (0.5%), FOS (0.5%), MOS (0.1%), sea algae (Ascophyllum nodosum), salts of fatty acids (butyric acid), glucosamine 500 mg/kg, rosemary (18 mg/kg), green tea (12 mg/kg).

Against the range

Meat: 30% dehydrated salmon; 20% lamb plus salmon on the digestion recipe
Rice: 30%; 20%
Biotin: 2 mg added; Not on the digestion panel
Energy: 415 kcal per 100g; 410

The closer of the two to one named animal, and the one for a pup with skin in mind.

Both puppy recipes lead on a dehydrated meat, lamb at 20% or salmon at 30%, with rice and rice flour behind it, so neither is grain free. Cellulose at 3% and beet pulp at 1% carry the fibre, and both labels print FOS at 0.5%, MOS at 0.1%, butyric acid salts and glucosamine at 500 mg/kg.

Hydrolysed animal protein and animal fat appear on both without a species. Neither label declares calcium or moisture.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

415 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

17%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

42.3%

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

31.4%

Carbs

49.2%

Veg

5.4%

Oils

7.2%

Other

6.8%

Pricing & size