Opti Life

Opti Life Puppy: Mini review

Name: Opti Life Puppy: Mini
Brand: Opti Life

64.3/100Good

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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

64.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

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

Small

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, dehydrated40%The densest bag, for a small stomach.
Rice20%
Animal fatMoved ahead of the rice flour here; no species given.
Rice flour
Cellulose, beet pulp4%, 1%
Linseed, hydrolysed animal proteins
Salmon oil, brewer's yeast, minerals, krill0.5% krill
FOS, dried whole eggs, MOS, sea algae, butyric acid0.5% FOS, 0.1% MOS
Glucosamine, rosemary, green tea250, 18, 12 mg/kgHalf the glucosamine of its siblings.

Vitamin E at 600 mg and vitamin C at 240 mg per kilo, with taurine lighter here at 550 mg.

Named ingredients

Chicken (dehydrated, 40%), rice (20%), animal fat, rice flour, vegetable fibres (cellulose 4%, beet pulp 1%), linseed, hydrolysed animal proteins, salmon oil, brewer's yeast, minerals, krill (0.5%), FOS (0.5%), dried whole eggs, MOS (0.1%), sea algae (Ascophyllum nodosum), salts of fatty acids (butyric acid), glucosamine 250 mg/kg, rosemary (18 mg/kg), green tea (12 mg/kg).

Against the range

Chicken and rice: 40% and 20%; 30/30 on Maxi, 35/25 on Medium.
Fat, dry matter: 23.9%; 15.2% on Maxi, 19.6% on Medium.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 30.4%; The lowest in the range.
Glucosamine and taurine: 250 mg/kg and 550 mg; 500 mg/kg and 1100 mg on the others.

The meatiest and best-scoring of the three, as a small pup's appetite demands.

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

440 kcal/100g

Protein

32%

Fat

22%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

34.8%

Fat

23.9%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

30.4%

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

40.6%

Carbs

34.9%

Veg

6.1%

Oils

12.8%

Other

5.5%

Pricing & size