Hill's Science Plan Perfect Weight Adult 1+ Small & Mini with Chicken

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Hill's Science Plan Perfect Weight Adult 1+ Small & Mini with Chicken

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
23/ 100
WeakTied 847th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 14% meat
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Wheat, maize protein meal, chicken- and turkey meal (9% chicken, total 14% poultry), pea bran meal, maize… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
14%
Protein, dry weight
29%
Carbs, dry weight
~39%
kcal/100 g
309

Ingredients

Listed first: Wheat. 14% of the recipe is declared meat.

Wheat, maize protein meal, chicken- and turkey meal (9% chicken, total 14% poultry), pea bran meal, maize, protein hydrolysate, dried tomato pomace, cellulose, linseeds, animal fats, dried beet pulp, coconut oil, minerals, dried carrots

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (10,014 IU), vitamin D3 (714 IU), vitamin E (730 IU), vitamin C (121 IU) beta-carotene (1.6mg), iron (75.2mg), iodine (1.9mg), copper (7.4mg), manganese (7.8mg), zinc (132mg), selenium (0.2mg). With natural antioxidants.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Wheat”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
WheatGrainNot given
maize protein mealGrainNot given
chicken- and turkey meal (9% chicken, total 14% poultry)Named meat14%
pea bran mealGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
protein hydrolysateFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried tomato pomaceVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
celluloseVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseedsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
animal fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
coconut oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
dried carrots.Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 29% and carbs about 39%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein26.2%29%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11%12%
Carbohydrate~35%~39%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre12.2%14%
Ash5.3%5.9%
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.

Energy309 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 23

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Meat scored lowest (6.4 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    6.4 / 45
    • Meat on the label4.9 / 35

      14% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.5 / 10

      Protein is 29.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    6.9 / 20

    About 39.2% 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 847th of 1,171 dry foods. 42 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 39% to 26% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

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. 24 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 24 nothing flagged
24 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, antioxidants, beet pulp, carrot, cellulose, chicken, coconut oil, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, pea fibre, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), wheat

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

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 6kg · £78.39Economy Pack: 2 x 6kg£78.39£6.53/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK6kg · £39.996kg£39.99£6.67/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK6kg£39.99£6.67/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 6kg£78.39£6.53/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK6kg£39.99£6.67/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 6kg£78.39£6.53/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK6kg£39.99£6.67/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 6kg£78.39£6.53/kg

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 36 to 40 points higher and cost up to 21% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
about 33% this food about 39%
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: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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