Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Adult 1-6 Medium: With Lamb & Rice review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Adult 1-6 Medium: With Lamb & Rice
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

40.5/100Average

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

40.5/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

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

Lamb

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

Broken rice20%Leads this recipe.
Wheat, maizeWheat is the grain owners hear about most when a dinner disagrees.
Soybean mealA plant protein, digestible enough for most dogs.
Lamb meal9%The only named animal.
Animal fatNo species given.
Maize protein meal, vegetable oil
DigestThe palatant, species unnamed.
Flaxseed, minerals
Oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides0.6% blend

Every trace mineral dosed to the milligram, zinc at 147mg and iron at 83.8mg per kilo, down to selenium.

No bird is named, but the fat and digest keep their species to themselves. Treat it as a swap of named protein only.

Named ingredients

ActivBiome+ Multi Benefit prebiotic blend (0.6%): Oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides. COMPOSITION: Broken rice (20%), wheat, maize, soybean meal, lamb meal (9%), animal fat, maize protein meal, vegetable oil, digest, flaxseed, minerals, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb meal, 9%; 14% total poultry in the chicken recipe
Leads the list: Broken rice, 20%; Wheat and maize lead the chicken
Fat: 14.0%; 14.9% on the chicken
Soybean meal: Yes; Not in the chicken

For a medium dog that has soured on poultry, this is the point of the pair.

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

371.8 kcal/100g

Protein

21.5%

Fat

14%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

4.8%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

5.2%

Carbs

54.7%

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

11.2%

Carbs

75.3%

Oils

5.8%

Other

7.6%

Pricing & size