Hill's Science Plan Digestion Small & Mini Breed Adult Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice

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Hill's Science Plan Digestion Small & Mini Breed Adult Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
9/ 100
WeakTied 1,153rd of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Worth knowing

  • Ground pecan shell: −5 points
  • 10% meat
  • About 58% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: with Chicken & Brown Rice: Wheat, maize, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 6%; total poultry 10%), animal fat, digest… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
10%
Protein, dry weight
21%
Carbs, dry weight
~58%
kcal/100 g
353

Ingredients

Listed first: Wheat. 10% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 10%
  • Grain 10.4%
  • No amount given 79.6%

with Chicken & Brown Rice: Wheat, maize, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 6%; total poultry 10%), animal fat, digest, broken rice, maize protein meal, brown rice (4%), barley (3.2%), oats (3.2%), ground pecan shell, minerals, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, vitamins, dried cranberries, trace elements and beta-carotene. With a natural antioxidant (mixed tocopherols).

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Vitamin A 8,570IU, Vitamin D3 660IU, Vitamin E 572mg, Vitamin C 118mg, Beta-carotene 1.6mg.

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 labelWe read it asShare on the label
WheatGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
chicken and turkey meal (chicken 6%; total poultry 10%)Named meat10%
animal fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
digestFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
broken riceGrainNot given
maize protein mealGrainNot given
brown rice (4%)Grain4%
barley (3.2%)Grain3.2%
oats (3.2%)Grain3.2%
ground pecan shellOtherNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
flaxseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried citrus pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
vitaminsOtherNot given
dried cranberriesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
trace elements and beta-carotene. With a natural antioxidan…OtherNot given

The label gives a total of 10% for its named meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 21% and carbs about 58%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein18.5%21%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11.7%13%
Carbohydrate~52%~58%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.6%2.9%
Ash4.9%5.4%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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.

Energy353 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 9

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (0.6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    3.6 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label3.5 / 35 points

      10% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 20.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    0.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 58.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

Points lost for ingredients: Ground pecan shell (−5).

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

Against other dry foods

Tied 1,153rd of 1,171 dry foods. 8 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 58% to 36% by dry weight, and protein is about 36%.

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

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

1 ingredient costs 5 points: ground pecan shell. 20 flagged nothing.

  • 1 costs points
  • 20 nothing flagged
20 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), chicken, citrus pulp, cranberries, digest (rendered meat digest), linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, oats, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamins, wheat

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)

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

Sources for these ingredients

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 25% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home1.5kg · £16.59 up 25% since 10 Aug1.5kg£16.59£11.06/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 25%.

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4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£16.59£11.06/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£14.93£9.95/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£13.27£8.85/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 50 to 54 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
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Carbs
about 22% this food about 58%
To feed
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+54 pointsCompare

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78% this food 10%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 58%
To feed
60% less per 1,000 kcal

+51 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 10%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 58%
To feed
35% less per 1,000 kcal

+50 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 10%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 58%
To feed
46% less per 1,000 kcal

+50 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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