Hill's Science Plan Healthy Mobility Small & Mini Breed Adult Dog Food with Chicken

Name: Hill's Science Plan Healthy Mobility Small & Mini Breed Adult Dog Food with Chicken
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil

WeakTied 1,077th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

No ingredient deductions

11% meat
About 56% carbs (dry weight)
Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Wheat, maize, broken rice, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 7%; total poultry 11%), barley… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 11%
Protein, dry weight: 22%
Carbs, dry weight: ~56%
kcal/100 g: 366

Ingredients

Listed first: Wheat. 11% of the recipe is declared meat.

Wheat, maize, broken rice, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 7%; total poultry 11%), barley, oats, digest, animal fat, maize protein meal, flaxseed, fish oil (1.8%), vegetable oil, minerals, pea bran meal, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides.

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Vitamin A 7,828IU, Vitamin D3 700IU, Vitamin E 752mg, Vitamin C 126mg, Beta-carotene 1.6mg, Glucosamine 335mg, Chondroitin sulphate 441mg.

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	Grain	Not given
broken rice	Grain	Not given
chicken and turkey meal (chicken 7%; total poultry 11%)	Named meat	11%
barley	Grain	Not given
oats	Grain	Not given
digest	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
animal fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
maize protein meal	Grain	Not given
flaxseed	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
fish oil (1.8%)	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	1.8%
vegetable oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given
pea bran meal	Grain	Not given
oat bran	Grain	Not given
fructo-oligosaccharides.	Other	Not given

The label gives a total of 11% for its named meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 22% and carbs about 56%, 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	19.6%	22%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	13.3%	15%
Carbohydrate	~51%	~56%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	2.2%	2.4%
Ash	4.3%	4.8%
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.

Energy366 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 15

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (1.3 of 20).

How much meat?
4.2 / 45 points
- Meat on the label3.9 / 35 points
  11% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0.3 / 10 points
  Protein is 21.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
1.3 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 56.2% 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?
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 1,077th of 1,171 dry foods. 23 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 56% to 34% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

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 23 ingredients.

23 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, barley, beta-carotene (provitamin A), chicken, chondroitin, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, oat bran, oats, oils and fats, pea fibre, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), 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