Hill's Science Plan Perfect Weight & Mobility Large Breed Adult Dry Dog Food

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Hill's Science Plan Perfect Weight & Mobility Large Breed Adult Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
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

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • 13% meat
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: With chicken: chicken and turkey meal (chicken 8%; total poultry 13%), wheat, maize gluten meal, pea bran meal, maize… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
13%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~36%
kcal/100 g
315

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken and turkey meal. 13% of the recipe is declared meat.

With chicken: chicken and turkey meal (chicken 8%; total poultry 13%), wheat, maize gluten meal, pea bran meal, maize, digest, dried tomato pomace, cellulose, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, coconut oil, soybean oil, fish oil (1.9%), minerals, animal fat, dried carrots, vitamins, pork cartilage (source of chondroitin sulphate), trace elements, crustacean shell hydrolysate (source of glucosamine) and beta-carotene. With a natural antioxidant (mixed tocopherols)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

ADDITIVES PER KG:

How we read this label

First ingredient: “chicken and turkey meal”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
chicken and turkey meal (chicken 8%; total poultry 13%)Named meat13%
wheatGrainNot given
maize gluten mealGrainNot given
pea bran mealGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
digestFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried tomato pomaceVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
celluloseVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
flaxseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
coconut oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
soybean oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
fish oil (1.9%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1.9%
mineralsOtherNot given
animal fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried carrotsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
vitaminsOtherNot given
pork cartilage (source of chondroitin sulphate)Named meatNot given
trace elementsOtherNot given
crustacean shell hydrolysate (source of glucosamine) and be…Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given

The label gives a total of 13% for its named meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 36%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein25.5%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat13%14%
Carbohydrate~33%~36%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre13.3%15%
Ash5.4%6%
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.

Energy315 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 23

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

  1. How much meat?

    6 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label4.6 / 35 points

      13% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.4 / 10 points

      Protein is 28.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    7.9 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 36.4% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. 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.

  4. What kind of meat?

    6.4 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed6.4 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 53% 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

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 36% to 24% 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.

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

1 noted: crustacean shell hydrolysate and beta-carotene. 18 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 18 nothing flagged
  • Crustacean shell hydrolysate and beta-caroteneCounted in “How processed?”

    A protein broken down by processing, often used in sensitive-stomach foods. It costs a point under “How processed?” rather than as a deduction.

18 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, beet pulp, carrot, cellulose, chicken, coconut oil, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, pea fibre, pork, soya oil, tomato, vitamins, wheat

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: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home12kg · £57.29 up 11% since 10 Aug12kg£57.29£4.77/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£57.29£4.77/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£48.70£4.06/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£51.56£4.30/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 34 to 37 points higher and cost up to 19% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 27% this food about 36%
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: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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