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Hill's Science Plan Light Small & Mini Mature Adult Dog Food With Chicken
DryCompleteSeniorContains grain
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
- About 56% carbs (dry weight)
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Chicken and turkey meal, wheat, brewers' rice, brown rice, maize… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 20%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~56%
- kcal/100 g
- 361
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken and turkey meal. The label gives no meat figure.
Chicken and turkey meal, wheat, brewers' rice, brown rice, maize, animal fat, digest, barley, oats, dried beet pulp, vegetable oil, flaxseed, minerals, dried tomato pomace, dried citrus pulp, spinach powder
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
Vitamin A (10,904IU/kg), Vitamin D3 (758IU/kg), Vitamin E (690mg/kg), Vitamin C (105mg/kg), Beta-carotene (1.5mg/kg), 3b103 (Iron) (71.7mg/kg), 3b202 (Iodine) (1.1mg/kg), 3b405 (Copper) (7.1mg/kg), 3b502 (Manganese) (7.4mg/kg), 3b603 (Zinc) (148mg/kg), 3b801 (Selenium) (0.2mg/kg)
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken and turkey meal”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken and turkey meal | Named meat | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| brewers' rice | Grain | Not given |
| brown rice | Grain | Not given |
| maize | Grain | Not given |
| animal fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| digest | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| oats | Grain | Not given |
| dried beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| vegetable oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| flaxseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| dried tomato pomace | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| dried citrus pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| spinach powder | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 20% and carbs about 56%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 17.8% | 20% |
| below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 14.5% | 16% |
| Carbohydrate | ~50% | ~56% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.3% | 2.6% |
| Ash | 5.2% | 5.8% |
| 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.
Energy361 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 21
The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (1.4 of 20).
How much meat?
8.8 / 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 / 10 points
Protein is 19.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
1.4 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 55.8% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for 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.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other dry foods
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 56% to 33% by dry weight, and protein is about 31%.
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
Nothing flagged in 26 ingredients.
26 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), chicken, citrus pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, oats, oils and fats, rice, spinach, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, 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
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, chicken, citrus pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, oats, oils and fats, rice, spinach, tomato, wheat
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Barley, beta-carotene (provitamin A), citrus pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), spinach, tomato, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Jollyes. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 25% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jollyes2.5kg · £28.00 up 25% since 10 Aug | 2.5kg | £28.00 | £11.20/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Jollyes up 25%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Jollyes | 2.5kg | £28.00 | £11.20/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Jollyes | 2.5kg | £28.00 | £11.20/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Jollyes | 2.5kg | £22.40 | £8.96/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 31 to 41 points higher at the same price or less.
- Carbs
- about 21% this food about 56%
- To feed
- 10% less per 1,000 kcal
+41 pointsCompare
Nourish Pet Food 80/20 Grain Free Salmon with Herring, Haddock, Trout & Sweet Potato Dry Dog Food
78% meatDry · All ages
Good£5.03/kg
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 56%
- To feed
- 60% less per 1,000 kcal
+39 pointsCompare
- Carbs
- about 26% this food about 56%
- To feed
- 45% less per 1,000 kcal
+38 pointsCompare
- Carbs
- about 41% this food about 56%
- To feed
- 60% less per 1,000 kcal
+31 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Jollyes.
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