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Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Small & Mini Breed Dry Dog Food with Chicken
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- 11% meat
- About 57% carbs (dry weight)
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Wheat, broken rice, brown rice, maize, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 7%; total poultry 11%)… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 11%
- Protein, dry weight
- 19%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~57%
- kcal/100 g
- 366
Ingredients
Listed first: Wheat. 11% of the recipe is declared meat.
Wheat, broken rice, brown rice, maize, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 7%; total poultry 11%), digest, barley, oats, animal fat, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, vegetable oil, minerals, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides, dried tomato pomace, dried citrus pulp, spinach powder. ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit prebiotic blend (0.6%): Oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
per kg: Vitamin A 9,787IU, Vitamin D3 696IU, Vitamin E 996mg, Vitamin C 117mg, Beta-carotene 1.5mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Wheat”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Wheat | Grain | Not given |
| broken rice | Grain | Not given |
| brown rice | Grain | Not given |
| maize | Grain | Not given |
| chicken and turkey meal (chicken 7%; total poultry 11%) | Named meat | 11% |
| digest | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Part of the item above |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| oats | Grain | Not given |
| animal fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| dried beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| flaxseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| vegetable oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| oat bran | Grain | Not given |
| fructo-oligosaccharides | 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 |
| ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit prebiotic blend (0.6%): Oat bran | Other | 0.6% |
| fructo-oligosaccharides | Other | Not given |
The label gives a total of 11% for its named meat.
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Nutrition
Protein 19% and carbs about 57%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 17.3% | 19% |
| below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 14% | 16% |
| Carbohydrate | ~51% | ~57% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.4% | 2.7% |
| Ash | 4.9% | 5.4% |
| 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.
Why it scores 15
The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (1 of 20).
How much meat?
3.9 / 45 points- Meat on the label3.9 / 35 points
11% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0 / 10 points
Protein is 19.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
1 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 57.1% 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 57% to 34% 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 21 ingredients.
21 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), chicken, citrus pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, oat bran, oats, oils and fats, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, 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
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, chicken, citrus pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, oats, oils and fats, rice, 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), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), tomato, vitamin A (retinyl acetate)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Oat bran
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 1.5kg | £11.29 | £7.53/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 3kg | £21.29 | £7.10/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 1.5kg | £9.03 | £6.02/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 3kg | £17.03 | £5.68/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 1.5kg | £10.16 | £6.77/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 3kg | £19.16 | £6.39/kg |
Your dog
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: Pets at Home.
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