Optimum Pet Health

Optimum Pet Health Adult Small Breeds review

Name: Optimum Pet Health Adult Small Breeds
Brand: Optimum Pet Health

72/100Excellent

DryAdult

The meatiest, richest recipe this brand makes, and in our Excellent band. Chicken is declared at 50%, split evenly between fresh and dried, and carbohydrate falls to 30.7% of dry matter, low ground for a kibble. The joint ingredients, the prebiotics and a tooth-minded mineral all make it into the small bag.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Lively small dogs. A lot of energy goes into a little kibble
Meat leading by a distance, half of it already dried
Dogs kept lower on starch
Older small dogs, with glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM, and sodium hexametaphosphate at 0.3% for the teeth
Cereal-free homes. The starch is green peas, potato flakes and sweet potatoes

Worth watching

Fat at 20.0%, so a sedate small dog needs a carefully measured scoop
Krill and fish oil in the mix. Chicken is the only meat, but it is not fish free
No dose printed for any of the three joint ingredients

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

How this scores

How we score

72/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Sold as a small-breed adult food. Most dogs eating it weigh far less than our 15kg costing dog, so weigh out the portion: they look tiny, and that is the richness.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Optimum Pet Health Adult Small Breeds 72.0

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The meat carries this one into Excellent, with the plant fillers just behind it keeping protein and processing at Good.

What's in it

Chicken: fresh chicken meat 25%, dried chicken 25%50%The dried half has already lost its water, so a quarter of the recipe arrives as concentrated meat.
Dried potato flakes, dried sweet potatoes, green peasThe starch, with less room to work in than usual.
Chicken fat10%Takes total fat to 20.0%.
Chicken gravy3%
Dried beet pulp, linseed
Fish oil, dried Antarctic krill2%, 1%Marine omega 3 well represented.
Minerals, of which sodium hexametaphosphate0.3%Ties up the calcium in saliva so plaque struggles to harden.
Carob flour, dried brewers yeast
Dried chicory, yeast cell wall, GOS1% eachFor the gut.
Turmeric, seaweed, glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, yucca, herbs, tyndallized LactobacillusA gesture towards small joints over a long life; no doses printed.

Trace minerals in pairs, one sulphate and one amino acid chelate each, all dosed, with selenised yeast, taurine, vitamin E at 450 mg and vitamin C at 100 mg.

Named ingredients

Chicken (Of Which Fresh Chicken Meat 25% And Dried Chicken 25%) (50%), Dried Potato Flakes, Dried Sweet Potatoes, Green Peas, Chicken Fat (10%), Chicken Gravy (3%), Dried Beet Pulp, Linseed, Fish Oil (2%), Dried Antarctic Krill (1%), Minerals (Of Which Sodium Hexametaphosphate, 0.3%), Carob Flour, Dried Brewers Yeast, Dried Chicory ( A Natural Source Of Fos And Inulin) (1%), Yeast Cell Wall (A Natural Source Of Mos And Beta Glucans) (1%), Gos (Galacto Oligosaccharides) (1%), Dried Curcuma Longa, Ascophyllum Nodosum, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulphate, Msm (Methylsulfonylmethane), Yucca Schidigera, Dried Melissa Officinalis, Dried Thymus Vulgaris, Dried Fenugreek, Olive Powder, Dried Rosehip, Tyndallized Lactobacillus Helveticus

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

380 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

32%

Fat

20%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

35.2%

Fat

22%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

30.7%

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

54%

Carbs

28.5%

Veg

Oils

12%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size