Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Large Breed Dry Dog Food Chicken Flavour

Name: Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Large Breed Dry Dog Food Chicken Flavour
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

DryCompleteSeniorContains grain

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

9% meat
About 56% carbs (dry weight)
Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Wheat, maize, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 6%; total poultry 9%), animal fat, digest… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 9%
Protein, dry weight: 20%
Carbs, dry weight: ~56%
kcal/100 g: 359

Ingredients

Listed first: Wheat. 9% of the recipe is declared meat.

Wheat, maize, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 6%; total poultry 9%), animal fat, digest, maize protein meal, vegetable oil, pea bran meal, flaxseed, minerals, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides, pork cartilage (source of chondroitin sulphate), crustacean shell hydrolysate (source of glucosamine). ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit prebiotic blend (0.6%): Oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides

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Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A, Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Beta-carotene, L-Carnitine, Glucosamine, Chondroitin sulphate, 3b103 (Iron), 3b202 (Iodine), 3b405 (Copper), 3b502 (Manganese), 3b603 (Zinc), 3b801 (Selenium)

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
chicken and turkey meal (chicken 6%; total poultry 9%)	Named meat	9%
animal fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Part of the item above
digest	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Part of the item above
maize protein meal	Grain	Not given
vegetable oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
pea bran meal	Grain	Not given
flaxseed	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given
oat bran	Grain	Not given
fructo-oligosaccharides	Other	Not given
pork cartilage (source of chondroitin sulphate)	Named meat	Not given
crustacean shell hydrolysate (source of glucosamine)	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit prebiotic blend (0.6%): Oat bran	Other	0.6%
fructo-oligosaccharides	Other	Not given

The label gives a total of 9% for its named meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 20% 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	17.7%	20%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	14.3%	16%
Carbohydrate	~50%	~56%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	3.1%	3.4%
Ash	4.8%	5.3%
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.

Energy359 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 15

The kind of meat scored best (8 of 15). Starch scored lowest (1.4 of 20).

How much meat?
3.2 / 45 points
- Meat on the label3.2 / 35 points
  9% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0 / 10 points
  Protein is 19.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
1.4 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 55.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
3 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 3 for added plant protein, starch or fibre, digest or flavouring and hydrolysed protein.
What kind of meat?
8 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed8 / 12 points
  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 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 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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 27 ingredients.

27 ingredients with nothing flagged

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

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

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