Optimum Pet Health

Optimum Pet Health Junior review

Name: Optimum Pet Health Junior
Brand: Optimum Pet Health

70.4/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A grain-free puppy kibble where every animal ingredient bar the marine pair is chicken. The 47% is broken out as 25% fresh and 22% dried, and the dried share holds more protein than its size suggests. Calcium is declared, which a growth food should do and many do not.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Pups that do best on chicken, the only meat in the bag
Grain-free homes. Potato flakes, peas and sweet potato do the binding
Rearing towards a heavy adult frame, with calcium at 1.1% of dry matter, inside the growth range
A gut that needs a hand: chicory, yeast cell wall and GOS each named at 1%
Joint ingredients from the outset, glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM included

Worth watching

Fish oil and krill at 1% each, so a chicken-only meat list is not fish free
Cellulose in the fibre, a purified powder
Estimated energy of 356 kcal per 100g, under the 376 typical, so portions run a shade larger
Chondroitin printed twice, which reads as a typesetting slip

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

How this scores

How we score

70.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, with calcium printed for the big ones. Work from the bag's chart by age and expected adult weight, and revise as the shape changes.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Optimum Pet Health Junior 70.4

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

An even showing built on one named meat and a supplement list that names its parts, losing a little polish in how the label is printed.

What's in it

Chicken: fresh chicken meat, dried chicken47% (25%, 22%)The dried share has already lost its water, so it carries more protein into the kibble.
Dried potato flakes, dried sweet potatoes, green peasSweet potato is the best of the three, with fibre and vitamin A.
Chicken fat, chicken gravy6%, 3%Same bird, no generic name.
Dried beet pulpA moderate, well-tolerated fibre.
Fish oil, dried Antarctic krill1% eachOmega 3, and the reason this is not fish free.
Minerals, linseed, carob flour
Cellulose, dried brewers yeastCellulose adds bulk and not much else.
Dried chicory, yeast cell wall, GOS1% eachInulin, MOS and beta glucans, galacto oligosaccharides: itemised gut support.
Glucosamine, chondroitin, MSMNo doses printed. Chondroitin appears twice on the list.
Turmeric, yucca, herbs, olive powder, rosehip, tyndallised Lactobacillus

Vitamins A, C, D3 and E with taurine, and trace minerals in both sulphate and amino acid chelate forms.

Named ingredients

Chicken (Of Which Fresh Chicken Meat 25% And Dried Chicken 22%) (47%), Dried Potato Flakes, Dried Sweet Potatoes, Green Peas, Chicken Fat (6%), Chicken Gravy (3%), Dried Beet Pulp, Fish Oil (1%), Dried Antarctic Krill (1%), Minerals, Linseed, Carob Flour, Cellulose, Dried Brewers Yeast, Dried Chicory (1%), Fos And Inulin, Yeast Cell Wall (1%), Mos And Beta Glucans, Gos (1%), Galacto Oligosaccharides, Dried Curcuma Longa, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulphate, Chondroitin Sulphate, Msm (Methylsulfonylmethane), Yucca Schidigera, Dried Melissa Officinalis, Dried Thymus Vulgaris, Dried Fenugreek, Olive Powder, Dried Rosehip, Tyndallized Lactobacillus Helveticus

Against the range

One grain-free growth recipe: chicken at 47%, with the fat and gravy from the same bird, potato flakes, sweet potato and peas for starch, and a long itemised tail of gut and joint support. Fish oil and krill are the only other animals.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

356.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

30%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

33%

Fat

17.6%

Fibre

4.4%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

36.2%

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

51%

Carbs

35.8%

Veg

Oils

Other

5.2%

Pricing & size