Optimum Pet Health Adult Cans review

A can this meat led does well on our scoring, and this one sits level with the typical adult wet food, both of them finishing inside our Excellent band. Protein converts to 41.3% of dry matter and fat to 32.6%, while the carbohydrate estimate stops at 10.9%, which is low even by wet food standards. Outstanding is the reading for nutritional balance and transparency. Value and protein and processing both come back Excellent.

Ingredients, as declared: 68603back.jpg (68603_02, 12x395g sleeve)): Chicken (62%), dried Antarctic krill (1%) (a natural source of DHA), minerals, salmon oil (0.5%), dried chicory (0.1%) (a natural source of FOS and inulin), dried Curcuma longa (turmeric) (0.1%), Yucca schidigera, dried Melissa officinalis (0.01%), dried Thymus vulgaris, dried fenugreek, olive powder, dried rosehip (0.005%), tyndallized Lactobacillus helveticus (0.001%).

Chicken at 62% is more or less the whole recipe. The label names the bird outright, so you can read what you are buying and do not have to take it on trust. Protein converts to 41.3% of dry matter and fat to 32.6%, so the analysis backs up what the list promises.

Dried Antarctic krill at 1% is the entry worth pausing on. A small marine crustacean, krill carries the long chain omega 3 a dog can use directly. Salmon oil at 0.5% tops that up. Fish is in the can as a result, so it is one to note if you are steering around it.

After that the list reads like a herb garden. Chicory at 0.1% works as a prebiotic and turmeric at 0.1% sits beside it. Rosehip, olive powder, fenugreek, thyme, lemon balm and yucca all appear at or below that level, and a tyndallised Lactobacillus closes the list at 0.001%. You would not buy the can for any of it, and none of it does any harm.

What is missing is a declared vitamin and trace element panel. Minerals appear as an ingredient, so the can is being supplemented. There are no printed figures to read though, and on an otherwise open label that is the one quiet spot.

At 108 kcal per 100g the can carries a little more energy than the typical adult wet food at 97, so portions come out slightly smaller than the size of the can might suggest.

£4.22 a kilo, in 395g cans sold as a 12 can multipack.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition gets through roughly 778 grams a day, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That comes to about £3.28 a day. That is a shade under two cans a day.