Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult 7+ Medium Light with Chicken

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Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult 7+ Medium Light with Chicken

DryCompleteSeniorContains grain
20/ 100
WeakTied 964th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 15% meat
  • About 50% carbs (dry weight)
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Maize, wheat, chicken- and turkey meal (9% chicken 9%, total 15% poultry), cellulose, pea bran meal… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
15%
Protein, dry weight
19%
Carbs, dry weight
~50%
kcal/100 g
313

Ingredients

Listed first: Maize. 15% of the recipe is declared meat.

Maize, wheat, chicken- and turkey meal (9% chicken 9%, total 15% poultry), cellulose, pea bran meal, protein hydrolysate, animal fats, dried beet pulp, linseed, vegetable oil, minerals, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides, pork cartilage [source of chondroitin sulphate], crustacean hydrolysate [source of glucosamine]. ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit Prebiotic Blend (0.6%): oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (8035 IU), vitamin D3 (681 IU), vitamin E (505 IU), vitamin C (93 IU), beta-carotene (1.5mg), L-carnitine (309mg), iron (75.7mg), iodine (1.9mg), copper (7.5mg), manganese (7.8mg), zinc (133mg), selenium (0.2mg). With natural antioxidants.

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
MaizeGrainNot given
wheatGrainNot given
chicken- and turkey meal (9% chicken 9%, total 15% poultry)Named meat15%
celluloseVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
pea bran mealGrainNot given
protein hydrolysateFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
animal fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
vegetable oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
oat branGrainNot given
fructo-oligosaccharidesOtherNot given
pork cartilage [source of chondroitin sulphate]Named meatNot given
crustacean hydrolysate [source of glucosamine]Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit Prebiotic Blend (0.6%): oat branOther0.6%
fructo-oligosaccharidesOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 19% and carbs about 50%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein17.5%19%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat10.4%12%
Carbohydrate~45%~50%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre12.1%13%
Ash4.8%5.3%
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.

Energy313 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 20

The kind of meat scored best (8 of 15). Meat scored lowest (5.3 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    5.3 / 45
    • Meat on the label5.3 / 35

      15% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0 / 10

      Protein is 19.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.3 / 20

    About 50.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 67% 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

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

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

Against other dry foods

Tied 964th of 1,171 dry foods. 22 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 50% to 32% by dry weight, and protein is about 30%.

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

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 26 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 26 nothing flagged
26 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, antioxidants, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), cellulose, chicken, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, oat bran, oils and fats, pea fibre, pork, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), wheat

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: 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

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

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg · £102.49 down 1% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£102.49£3.66/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK14kg · £52.09 down 1% since 10 Aug14kg£52.09£3.72/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Zooplus UK down 1%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK14kg£52.09£3.72/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£102.49£3.66/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK14kg£52.19£3.73/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£102.49£3.66/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK14kg£52.79£3.77/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£103.99£3.71/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

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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: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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