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Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Dog Food With Chicken
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- 12% meat
- About 53% carbs (dry weight)
- Some meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives, chicken (12%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 12%
- Protein, dry weight
- 22%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~53%
- kcal/100 g
- 89
Ingredients
Listed first: “Meat and animal derivatives”. 12% of the recipe is declared meat.
Meat and animal derivatives, chicken (12%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, oils and fats
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
Vitamin A (11,371IU/kg), Vitamin D3 (179IU/kg), 3b103 (Iron) (10.0mg/kg), 3b202 (Iodine) (0.3mg/kg), 3b405 (Copper) (1.7mg/kg), 3b502 (Manganese) (2.2mg/kg), 3b603 (Zinc) (25.9mg/kg)
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Meat and animal derivatives”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Meat and animal derivatives | A group name, not one ingredient | Not given |
| chicken (12%) | Named meat | 12% |
| cereals | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| derivatives of vegetable origin | A group name, not one ingredient | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| oils and fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 22% and carbs about 53%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 5.1% | 22% |
| below the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 3.4% | 15% |
| Carbohydrate | ~12% | ~53% |
| above the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.8% | 3.7% |
| Ash | 1.5% | 6.5% |
| Moisture | 77% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 21
How it’s made scored best (8 of 20). Meat scored lowest (4.6 of 45).
How much meat?
4.6 / 45 points- Meat on the label4.2 / 35 points
12% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0.4 / 10 points
Protein is 22.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
2.4 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 52.8% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
What kind of meat?
6 / 15 points- How the meat is listed6 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as an unnamed category and fresh, 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 wet 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 →Ingredient notes
2 noted: meat and animal derivatives, and derivatives of vegetable origin.
- 2 noted
- 11 nothing flagged
- Meat and animal derivativesCounted in “What kind of meat?”Feed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which animal or plant parts are used. It costs points under “What kind of meat?” rather than as a deduction.
- Derivatives of vegetable originNoted, no points takenFeed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which plant parts are used.
11 ingredients with nothing flagged
Cereals, chicken, minerals, oils and fats
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Cereals, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Cereals, chicken, minerals, oils and fats
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jollyes370g · £3.00 up 25% since 10 Aug | 370g | £3.00 | £8.11/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Jollyes up 25%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Jollyes | 370g | £3.00 | £8.11/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Jollyes | 370g | £3.00 | £8.11/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Jollyes | 370g | £2.40 | £6.49/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
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- Meat
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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- 64% this food 12%
- Carbs
- about 3% this food about 53%
- To feed
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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: Jollyes.
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