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Hill's Science Plan Adult Medium Dry Dog Food Lamb & Rice Flavour

Name: Hill's Science Plan Adult Medium Dry Dog Food Lamb & Rice Flavour
Brand: Hill's Science Plan
Availability: InStock

DryCompleteAdultContains grain

WeakTied 934th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

No ingredient deductions

Meat amount not given
About 54% carbs (dry weight)
Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Maize, wheat, lamb meal, soybean meal, animal fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: Not on label
Protein, dry weight: 24%
Carbs, dry weight: ~54%
kcal/100 g: 364

Ingredients

Listed first: Maize. The label gives no meat figure.

Maize, wheat, lamb meal, soybean meal, animal fat, maize gluten meal, brewers' rice, digest, vegetable oil, flaxseed, minerals

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A, Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Beta-carotene, 3b103 (Iron), 3b202 (Iodine), 3b405 (Copper), 3b502 (Manganese), 3b603 (Zinc), 3b801 (Selenium)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Maize”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Maize	Grain	Not given
wheat	Grain	Not given
lamb meal	Named meat	Not given
soybean meal	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
animal fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
maize gluten meal	Grain	Not given
brewers' rice	Grain	Not given
digest	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
vegetable oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
flaxseed	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 24% and carbs about 54%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	21.2%	24%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	14.2%	16%
Carbohydrate	~48%	~54%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	1.7%	1.9%
Ash	4.7%	5.2%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed	10%	taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy364 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 21

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.1 of 20).

How much meat?
9.4 / 45 points
- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
  Meat is named but the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.
- Protein level0.6 / 10 points
  Protein is 23.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
2.1 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 53.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
4 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
6 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed6 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as meal, which earns 50% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat0 / 3 points
  No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 934th of 1,171 dry foods. 30 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 54% to 33% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 22 ingredients.

22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, beta-carotene (provitamin A), digest (rendered meat digest), lamb, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, oils and fats, rice, soya (soybean), tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), wheat

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients