Hill's Science Plan Small & Mini Breed Adult Dry Dog Food with Chicken

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Hill's Science Plan Small & Mini Breed Adult Dry Dog Food with Chicken

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
22/ 100
WeakTied 889th 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

  • 17% meat
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: with Chicken: Chicken and turkey meal (chicken 11%; total poultry 17%), wheat, pea bran meal, maize, maize protein meal… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
17%
Protein, dry weight
26%
Carbs, dry weight
~43%
kcal/100 g
312

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken and turkey meal. 17% of the recipe is declared meat.

with Chicken: Chicken and turkey meal (chicken 11%; total poultry 17%), wheat, pea bran meal, maize, maize protein meal, digest, broken rice, cellulose, animal fat, dried beet pulp, soybean oil, minerals, flaxseed, vitamins, oat bran, L-carnitine, fructo-oligosaccharides, dried tomato pomace, dried citrus pulp, spinach powder, trace elements and beta-carotene. With a natural antioxidant (mixed tocopherols).

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Vitamin A 8,770IU, Vitamin D3 656IU, Vitamin E 1,017mg, Vitamin C 128mg, Beta-carotene 1.6mg, L-carnitine 333mg.

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 11%; total poultry 17%)Named meat17%
wheatGrainNot given
pea bran mealGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
maize protein mealGrainNot given
digestFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
broken riceGrainNot given
celluloseVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
animal fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
soybean oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
flaxseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
vitaminsOtherNot given
oat branGrainNot given
L-carnitineOtherNot given
fructo-oligosaccharidesOtherNot given
dried tomato pomaceVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried citrus pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
spinach powderVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

The label gives a total of 17% for its named meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 26% and carbs about 43%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein23.7%26%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat10.3%11%
Carbohydrate~38%~43%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre12.4%14%
Ash5.2%5.8%
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.

Energy312 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 22

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Meat scored lowest (7.1 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    7.1 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label6 / 35 points

      17% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 26.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.8 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 42.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and digest or flavouring.

  4. What kind of meat?

    6 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12 points

      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 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 889th of 1,171 dry foods. 45 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 43% to 28% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.

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 25 ingredients.

25 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), cellulose, chicken, citrus pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, oat bran, pea fibre, rice, soya oil, spinach, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamins, wheat

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)

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 Home1.5kg · £11.29 up 11% since 10 Aug1.5kg£11.29£7.53/kgVisit

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

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4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£11.29£7.53/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£9.03£6.02/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£10.16£6.77/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 37 to 41 points higher and cost up to 6% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78.5% this food 17%
Carbs
about 22% this food about 43%
To feed
6% more per 1,000 kcal

+41 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 17%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 43%
To feed
49% less per 1,000 kcal

+38 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 17%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 43%
To feed
16% less per 1,000 kcal

+37 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 17%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 43%
To feed
29% less per 1,000 kcal

+37 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.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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