Hill's Science Plan Adult Perfect Weight Small & Mini Dry Dog Food Chicken Flavour

Name: Hill's Science Plan Adult Perfect Weight Small & Mini Dry Dog Food Chicken Flavour
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

DryCompleteAdultContains grain

WeakTied 750th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

No ingredient deductions

14% meat
Some meat not named by animal
Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Wheat, maize protein meal, chicken, turkey meal, chicken (9%)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 14%
Protein, dry weight: 29%
Carbs, dry weight: ~39%
kcal/100 g: 309

Ingredients

Listed first: Wheat. 14% of the recipe is declared meat.

Wheat, maize protein meal, chicken, turkey meal, chicken (9%), total poultry (14%), pea bran meal, maize, digest, dried tomato pomace, cellulose, flaxseed, animal fat, dried beet pulp, coconut oil, minerals, dried carrots, vitamins, trace elements, beta-carotene

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: “Wheat”. 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
Wheat	Grain	Not given
maize protein meal	Grain	Not given
chicken	Named meat	Not given
turkey meal	Named meat	Not given
chicken (9%)	Named meat	9%
total poultry (14%)	Meat, animal not named	14%
pea bran meal	Grain	Not given
maize	Grain	Not given
digest	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
dried tomato pomace	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
cellulose	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
flaxseed	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
animal fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
dried beet pulp	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
coconut oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given
dried carrots	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
vitamins	Other	Not given
trace elements	Other	Not given
beta-carotene	Other	Not given

The label gives a total of 14% for its named meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 29% and carbs about 39%, 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	26.2%	29%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	11%	12%
Carbohydrate	~35%	~39%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	12.2%	14%
Ash	5.3%	5.9%
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.

Energy309 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 25

The kind of meat scored best (8.6 of 15). Meat scored lowest (6.4 of 45).

How much meat?
6.4 / 45 points
- Meat on the label4.9 / 35 points
  14% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.5 / 10 points
  Protein is 29.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
6.9 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 39.2% 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?
8.6 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed8.6 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and unnamed fresh, which earns 72% 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 750th of 1,171 dry foods. 47 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 39% to 26% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

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 27 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.

27 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), carrot, cellulose, chicken, coconut oil, digest (rendered meat digest), linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, pea fibre, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, turkey, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamins, 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