Optimum Pet Health

Optimum Pet Health Puppy Cans review

Name: Optimum Pet Health Puppy Cans
Brand: Optimum Pet Health

78.5/100Excellent

WetPuppy

About as short as a growth tin gets, and it belongs in our Excellent band. Chicken is 62% of the tin and nothing is brought in to bulk it out. Protein converts to 41.3% of dry matter, a figure that would look respectable on a dry food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies raised on chicken, the one meat on the list
A bowl built from meat, with fat at 30.4% of dry matter alongside that protein
Pups heading for a large frame. Calcium converts to 1.3% of dry matter, inside the growth range
Fussy eaters and pups who need more water, at 77.0% declared moisture
Owners who want joint ingredients printed with doses

Worth watching

Dried krill, a marine entry, if you are keeping a pup clear of fish
Minerals as a single word, with no vitamin or trace mineral detail
No starch named, so the carbohydrate figure is worked out by difference

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

How this scores

How we score

78.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Wet food feeds in much larger volumes than kibble, so set the daily amount from the growth chart and let the waistline settle it.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Optimum Pet Health Puppy Cans 78.5

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A strong place on a strong shelf, held up by a very high meat share with almost nothing standing in for it.

What's in it

Chicken62%Effectively the whole recipe, and the only meat.
Dried Antarctic krill1%A natural source of DHA for a puppy's brain and eyes. Puts fish in the allergen picture.
MineralsNot broken down, the one line the label keeps closed.
Dried turmeric0.1%
Glucosamine hydrochloride, MSM, chondroitin sulphate0.03%, 0.02%, 0.01%An early and gentle nod, not a working programme.
Yucca schidigera, melissa, thyme, fenugreek, olive powder, rosehipmelissa 0.01%, rosehip 0.005%Seasoning level.
Tyndallised Lactobacillus helveticus0.001%

Named ingredients

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Against the range

One short puppy tin: chicken at 62% is the only meat, dried Antarctic krill at 1% adds DHA, and a run of botanicals follows at fractions of a percent. No starch source appears on the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

106 kcal/100g

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

41.3%

Fat

30.4%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

13.1%

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

63%

Added water

22.1%

Other

14.9%

Pricing & size