Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Adult 1+ Large with Chicken & Brown Rice

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Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Adult 1+ Large with Chicken & Brown Rice

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
14/ 100
WeakTied 1,100th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 10% meat
  • About 58% carbs (dry weight)
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Maize, chicken- and turkey meal (6% chicken, total 10% poultry), animal fats, protein hydrolysate, broken rice… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
10%
Protein, dry weight
20%
Carbs, dry weight
~58%
kcal/100 g
349

Ingredients

Listed first: Maize. 10% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 10%
  • Grain 10.4%
  • Other 4%
  • No amount given 75.6%

Maize, chicken- and turkey meal (6% chicken, total 10% poultry), animal fats, protein hydrolysate, broken rice, maize protein meal, brown rice (4%), barley (3.2%), oats (3.2%), ground pecan nut shells, minerals, dried beet pulp, linseed, dried citrus fruit pulp, dried cranberries. ActivBiome+ Digestion prebiotic mix (4%): ground pecan nut shells, dried beet pulp, linseed, dried citrus fruit pulp, dried cranberries

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (10,561 IU), vitamin D3 (769 IU), vitamin E (550mg), vitamin C (90mg), beta carotene (1.5mg), iron (76.4mg), iodine (1.9mg), copper (7.5mg), manganese (7.9mg), zinc (134mg), selenium (0.2mg).

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
chicken- and turkey meal (6% chicken, total 10% poultry)Named meat10%
animal fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
protein hydrolysateFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
broken riceGrainNot given
maize protein mealGrainNot given
brown rice (4%)Grain4%
barley (3.2%)Grain3.2%
oats (3.2%)Grain3.2%
ground pecan nut shellsOtherNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried citrus fruit pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried cranberriesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
ActivBiome+ Digestion prebiotic mix (4%): ground pecan nut …Other4%
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried citrus fruit pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried cranberries.Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 20% and carbs about 58%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein18.4%20%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11.8%13%
Carbohydrate~53%~58%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.6%2.9%
Ash4.6%5.1%
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.

Energy349 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 14

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (0.5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    3.6 / 45
    • Meat on the label3.5 / 35

      10% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.1 / 10

      Protein is 20.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    0.5 / 20

    About 58.4% 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?

    6 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12

      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

      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 1,100th of 1,171 dry foods. 15 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 58% to 36% by dry weight, and protein is about 36%.

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. 23 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 23 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
23 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), chicken, citrus pulp, cranberries, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, oats, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Ground pecan nut shells

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

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 · £126.99Economy Pack: 2 x 14kg£126.99£4.54/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK14kg · £64.3914kg£64.39£4.60/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK14kg£64.39£4.60/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£126.99£4.54/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK14kg£64.39£4.60/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£126.99£4.54/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK14kg£64.39£4.60/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 14kg£126.99£4.54/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

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Carbs
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Carbs
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To feed
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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: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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