Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Adult 1-6 Medium: With Chicken review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Adult 1-6 Medium: With Chicken
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

41.5/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Hill's everyday kibble for medium adults, built to a fixed nutrient brief, with both recipes in our Average band. That band reads how the recipe is assembled and is no warning about feeding it. The small print is where the brand shows its habits: every mineral dosed, the prebiotic blend itemised.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium breed adults through their middle years
Dogs that have eaten cereal-based kibble without a murmur
A choice of bird or red meat written to the same brief
Owners who want a dose printed against every trace mineral
Slightly delicate digestion, with the prebiotic blend at 0.6% on both

Worth watching

Wheat at or near the top of both lists
Modest declared meat: 14% total poultry, or 9% lamb meal
Unnamed animal fat and digest, so neither recipe can anchor a strict exclusion trial
Estimated carbohydrate at 53.8% and 54.7% of dry matter, against 46.2% for typical adult dry food

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

How this scores

How we score

41.5/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium breed adults. The label's table lands on 230 grams a day for a 15kg dog; weigh it and let the waistline settle the difference.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Chicken 41.5
With Lamb 40.5

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The reasons are structural, cereals first and a small animal share, and the scale does not reward the brand's real habit of holding each bag to the same nutrient targets.

What's in it

Wheat, maizeLead the list. Wheat binds a kibble well and most dogs digest it with no fuss.
Chicken and turkey mealchicken 9%; total poultry 14%Birds named, and a meal's figure is close to what survives into the kibble.
Broken rice
Animal fat, digestNo species on either. Digest is the palatant brushed over the kibble.
Maize protein meal, vegetable oil
Minerals
Dried beet pulpFibre, with the oat bran.
FlaxseedThe plant omega source.
Oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides0.6% blendThe prebiotic blend, broken down into its parts.

Every trace mineral dosed to the milligram, zinc at 140mg and iron at 84.5mg per kilo, down to selenium.

Named ingredients

Wheat, maize, chicken and turkey meal (chicken 9%; total poultry 14%), broken rice, animal fat, digest, maize protein meal, vegetable oil, minerals, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides. ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit prebiotic blend (0.6%): Oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken and turkey meal, 14% total poultry; Lamb meal at 9% in the other recipe
Leads the list: Wheat and maize; Broken rice at 20% leads the lamb
Fat: 14.9%; 14.0% on the lamb
Copper and iodine: 9.1mg and 2.8mg per kilo; A little lower on the lamb

If your dog has always been happy on poultry, this is the one.

Both recipes are cereal led, with wheat and maize in each and broken rice in each. The added fat and the digest name no species on either label. Protein converts to 23.4% of dry matter in both, and the prebiotic blend of oat bran and fructo-oligosaccharides is declared at 0.6% and broken into its parts. What changes is the named meat: poultry in one, lamb in the other.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372.4 kcal/100g

Protein

21.5%

Fat

14.9%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

4.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

16.2%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

Carbs

53.8%

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

19.8%

Carbs

75.1%

Oils

4.2%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size