Hill's Science Plan Senior Vitality Mature Adult 7+ Small & Mini with Chicken

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Hill's Science Plan Senior Vitality Mature Adult 7+ Small & Mini with Chicken

DryCompleteSeniorContains grain
16/ 100
WeakTied 1,047th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 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
22%
Carbs, dry weight
~57%
kcal/100 g
355

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: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (10,472 IU), vitamin D3 (921 IU), vitamin E (1265mg), vitamin C (360mg), beta-carotene (1.5mg), iron (84mg), iodine (1.3mg), copper (8.3mg), manganese (8.7mg), zinc (174mg), 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
broken riceGrainNot given
brown riceGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
chicken and turkey meal (chicken 7%; total poultry 11%)Named meat11%
digestFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
barleyGrainNot given
oatsGrainNot given
animal fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
flaxseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
vegetable oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
oat branGrainNot given
fructo-oligosaccharidesOtherNot given
dried tomato pomaceVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried citrus pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
spinach powderVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit prebiotic blend (0.6%): Oat branOther0.6%
fructo-oligosaccharides.OtherNot given

The label gives a total of 11% for its named meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 22% and carbs about 57%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein19.8%22%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12.7%14%
Carbohydrate~51%~57%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre1.7%1.9%
Ash4.9%5.4%
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.

Energy355 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 16

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (1.1 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    4.2 / 45
    • Meat on the label3.9 / 35

      11% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.3 / 10

      Protein is 22% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    1.1 / 20

    About 56.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.

  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 1,047th of 1,171 dry foods. 30 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 57% to 34% by dry weight, and protein is about 33%.

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 28 ingredients.

28 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, antioxidants, 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: 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 · £81.89Economy Pack: 2 x 6kg£81.89£6.82/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK6kg · £41.796kg£41.79£6.96/kgVisit

Price has moved by less than 1% since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK6kg£41.79£6.96/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 6kg£81.89£6.82/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK6kg£41.89£6.98/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 6kg£82.09£6.84/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK6kg£41.89£6.98/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 6kg£82.09£6.84/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

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Carbs
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Carbs
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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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