Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Adult 1-6 Light review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Adult 1-6 Light
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

35.7/100Average

WetAdult

Hill's leaner tin for a dog carrying a little more than it should, and an Average result in our scoring. Fibre does the work, converting to 12.1% of dry matter, high for wet food, with fat held to 2.4%. The composition is seven entries long and not one of them names an ingredient. Dogs do lose weight on tins like this; the label simply shows almost nothing.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium adults on a weight plan, the job this recipe is written for
Dogs that hover hopefully between meals: fibre fills the bowl without much energy behind it
One measured tin in place of a shrinking portion of the usual food
Fat kept firmly down
A lighter meal that keeps the softness and smell of wet food

Worth watching

No ingredient is identified, so the meat, cereals and plants could change between batches
A dog with a diagnosed allergy cannot use this tin to test anything
Various sugars on the list, odd in a weight-control recipe
Protein at 27.5% of dry matter is modest for a dog holding muscle while losing fat

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

35.7/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium-sized adults. Agree a target weight with your vet and feed to that, as maintenance portions are the wrong yardstick for a dog meant to be losing weight.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Adult 1-6 Light 35.7

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A light diet pulls down the two levers that lift a score; the rest of the gap is seven legal categories that leave our pillars little to work with.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesAny part of any warm-blooded land animal.
CerealsAny grain.
Derivatives of vegetable originAlmost any plant material. With the cereals, the reason carbohydrate reaches an estimated 44.2% of dry matter.
Vegetable protein extractsPlant protein lifting the analysis without meat behind it, and less complete for a dog.
Various sugars
MineralsCalcium converts to 0.83% of dry matter, comfortable for adult maintenance.
Oils and fatsFat from any source.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, each with a figure: the one part of the label that tells you exactly what you get.

Fibre at several times a standard wet recipe: expect firmer, more frequent stools while your dog adjusts.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives, cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetable protein extracts, various sugars, minerals, oils and fats.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

82.1 kcal/100g

Protein

6.6%

Fat

2.4%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

10%

Fibre

12.1%

Ash

6.2%

Carbs

44.2%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

37.6%

Added water

11%

Carbs

49.1%

Oils

0.9%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size