Optimum Pet Health

Optimum Pet Health Sensitive Adult review

Name: Optimum Pet Health Sensitive Adult
Brand: Optimum Pet Health

65.4/100Good

DryAdult

The recipe in this brand's line with no chicken anywhere. Salmon supplies every scrap of animal protein, and the added oil is rapeseed, not an animal fat. For a dog reacting to something nobody has pinned down, that is a clean sheet to work from.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion trials. Salmon is the one animal on the list
Dogs that have reacted to chicken, which appears in no form
Owners who want the fish share printed, split 25% fresh and 20% dried
Unsettled guts, with chicory, yeast cell wall and GOS each at 1%
Cereal-free homes

Worth watching

Salmon carries the whole animal side, so a fish-avoiding dog is not the audience
Carbohydrate at an estimated 45.0% of dry matter, close to a typical dry food
No glucosamine, chondroitin or MSM

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

How this scores

How we score

65.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. On a trial, portion by condition and keep the amount steady so the variables hold still.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Optimum Pet Health Sensitive Adult 65.4

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Sticking to one animal is what lifts it above the middle of adult dry; the potato and pea are what hold nutritional balance back.

What's in it

Fresh salmon25%Mostly water before it is cooked.
Dried salmon20%Where much of the finished protein comes from.
Dried potato flakes, dried sweet potatoes, green peasThe starch, with no cereal anywhere.
Canola oil5%Rapeseed in place of the chicken fat used elsewhere in the brand.
Salmon gravy3%More of the same fish.
Dried beet pulp, linseedFibre, and plant omega 3.
Minerals, dried brewer's yeast
Dried chicory, yeast cell wall, GOS1% eachFOS and inulin, then MOS and beta glucans, then galacto-oligosaccharides.
Turmeric, yucca, lemon balm, thyme, fenugreek, olive powder, rosehipTrace level.
Tyndallized Lactobacillus helveticusHeat-treated, so it works without surviving the bag.

Plain sulphates and calcium iodate for the trace minerals, taurine with its own dose, and generous vitamin E at 450 mg and vitamin C at 100 mg.

Named ingredients

Salmon (Of Which Fresh Salmon 25% And Dried Salmon 20%) (45%), Dried Potato Flakes, Dried Sweet Potatoes, Green Peas, Canola Oil (5%), Salmon Gravy (3%), Dried Beet Pulp, Linseed, Minerals, 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, Yucca Schidigera, Dried Melissa Officinalis, Dried Thymus Vulgaris, Dried Fenugreek, Olive Powder, Dried Rosehip, Tyndaillized Lactobacillus Helveticus

Against the range

One single-protein recipe: salmon at 45%, fresh and dried, with salmon gravy and canola oil in place of an animal fat. Potato, sweet potato and peas take the starch, and the gut entries are each dosed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

358.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

45%

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

48%

Carbs

39.7%

Veg

Oils

Other

6.2%

Pricing & size