Opti Life

Opti Life Puppy: Maxi review

Name: Opti Life Puppy: Maxi
Brand: Opti Life

55.9/100Good

DryPuppy

Flavour

A Good puppy range tuned to how big the pup will finish. The smaller the target dog, the denser the bag, with dehydrated chicken rising from 30% to 40% as rice falls away. What caps it is the missing calcium line and the unnamed animal entries.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the bag matched to adult size: Maxi, Medium or Mini
Chicken-fed pups. Dehydrated chicken leads every list
Rice-friendly households
Joint cover from early on, with glucosamine in each recipe
Prebiotics named on the label, FOS at 0.5% and MOS at 0.1%

Worth watching

No calcium figure on any bag, including the large-breed Maxi
Unnamed animal fat and hydrolysed proteins, with salmon oil and krill adding fish
Rice and rice flour throughout, so nothing grain free

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

How this scores

How we score

55.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, by expected adult size. Feed to the pack's chart for age and adult size, checked against how the pup is filling out.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Mini 64.3
Medium 60.4
Maxi 55.9

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Scores rise as the meat share does, which is just what three versions of one recipe should look like.

What's in it

Chicken, dehydrated30%Water gone before mixing, so the share holds in the kibble.
Rice, rice flour30% riceGentle, familiar starch.
Animal fatNo species given.
Cellulose, beet pulp3%, 1%Beet pulp is the useful half; cellulose adds bulk.
Linseed, hydrolysed animal proteinsThe proteins are unnamed.
Minerals, salmon oil, brewer's yeast
Krill, FOS0.5% each
Dried whole eggs, MOS, sea algae0.1% MOS
Butyric acid (salts of fatty acids)The short chain fat that fuels the cells lining the gut.
Glucosamine, rosemary, green tea500, 18, 12 mg/kg

Taurine at 1100 mg, vitamin E at 600 mg and vitamin C at 240 mg per kilo, with the trace minerals all dosed and zinc and selenium in two forms each.

No calcium figure on the large-breed bag; ask the maker for it.

Named ingredients

Chicken (dehydrated, 30%), rice (30%), rice flour, animal fat, vegetable fibres (cellulose 3%, beet pulp 1%), linseed, hydrolysed animal proteins, minerals, salmon oil, brewer's yeast, krill (0.5%), FOS (0.5%), dried whole eggs, 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

Chicken and rice: 30% and 30%; 35/25 on Medium, 40/20 on Mini.
Energy: 400 kcal per 100g; 420 on Medium, 440 on Mini.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 46.2%; The highest; Mini is 30.4%.
Fat, dry matter: 15.2%; The leanest of the three.

The gentlest bag of the three, which fits the slow, steady growth a heavy-framed pup is best reared on.

One recipe scaled three ways. As the target adult size drops the dehydrated chicken climbs and the rice retreats: 30% against 30% in Maxi, 35% against 25% in Medium, 40% against 20% in Mini.

The support cast is constant: FOS at 0.5% and MOS at 0.1%, krill at 0.5%, dried whole eggs, sea algae, butyric acid and salmon oil. Animal fat and hydrolysed animal proteins carry no species on any bag, and none prints calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

400 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

46.2%

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

33.8%

Carbs

49.1%

Veg

5.1%

Oils

6.9%

Other

5.1%

Pricing & size