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Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Adult Small & Mini Wet Dog Food Turkey
Worth knowing
- Ground pecan shell: −5 points
- 7% meat
- About 49% carbs (dry weight)
First ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (turkey 7%), derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, vegetables, eggs and egg derivatives… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 7%
- Protein, dry weight
- 24%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~49%
- kcal/100 g
- 167
Ingredients
Listed first: Meat and animal derivatives. 7% of the recipe is declared meat.
Meat and animal derivatives (turkey 7%), derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, vegetables, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals, fruit, seeds, oils and fats. ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend (1.3%): Ground pecan shell, flaxseed, dried beet pulp, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries.
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
ADDITIVES PER KG: Nutritional additives: 3b103 (Iron) 12.0mg, 3b202 (Iodine) 0.4mg, 3b405 (Copper) 1.2mg, 3b502 (Manganese) 2.4mg, 3b603 (Zinc) 33.5mg.
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 (turkey 7%) | Named meat | 7% |
| derivatives of vegetable origin | A group name, not one ingredient | Not given |
| cereals | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| vegetables | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| eggs and egg derivatives | Other | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| fruit | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| seeds | Other | Not given |
| oils and fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend (1.3%): Ground pecan shell | Other | 1.3% |
| flaxseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| dried beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| dried citrus pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| dried cranberries. | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 24% and carbs about 49%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 5.1% | 24% |
| below the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 3.4% | 16% |
| Carbohydrate | ~10% | ~49% |
| above the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Ash | 1.4% | 6.6% |
| Moisture | 78.8% | 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 9
How it’s made scored best (8 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).
How much meat?
3.2 / 45 points- Meat on the label2.5 / 35 points
7% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0.7 / 10 points
Protein is 24.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
3.6 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 49.2% 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?
0 / 15 points- How the meat is listed0 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as an unnamed category, which earns 0% 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.
Points lost for ingredients: Ground pecan shell (−5).
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
1 ingredient costs 5 points: ground pecan shell. 2 more noted. 12 flagged nothing.
- 1 costs points
- 2 noted
- 12 nothing flagged
- 2 not in our ingredient database yet
- Ground pecan shellCosts 5 pointsFeed material (fibre source)
Why it costs points and sources
Ground shells used as fibre. A dog study found no problems, but pecan shells can carry mould toxins, so we flag them as a caution.
- 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.
12 ingredients with nothing flagged
Beet pulp, cereals, citrus pulp, cranberries, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, seeds, vegetables
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, 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)Beet pulp, cereals, citrus pulp, cranberries, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, seeds, vegetables
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Cereals, citrus pulp, cranberries, seeds, vegetables, manganese, zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- EFSA FEEDAP (PMC13063795)Cranberries
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
2 not in our ingredient database yet
Eggs and egg derivatives, fruit
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: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home1 x 200g · £2.59 up 11% since 10 Aug | 1 x 200g | £2.59 | £12.95/kg | Visit |
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 x 200g | £2.59 | £12.95/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 200g | £2.33 | £11.65/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 200g | £2.33 | £11.65/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 wet foods score 62 to 74 points higher and cost up to 8% more.

- Meat
- 100% this food 7%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 49%
- To feed
- 10% less per 1,000 kcal
+74 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 72% this food 7%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 49%
- To feed
- 8% more per 1,000 kcal
+68 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 75% this food 7%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 49%
- To feed
- 34% less per 1,000 kcal
+64 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 70% this food 7%
- Carbs
- about 3% this food about 49%
- To feed
- 66% less per 1,000 kcal
+62 pointsCompare
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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