Hill's Science Plan

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

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

38.1/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Three tins on one recipe, with beef, chicken or turkey named at 9% and the rest written as legal categories. All three sit in our Average band on what the labels leave unsaid. Hill's runs its own feeding research, and dogs eat well on these tins year after year.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs, the size Hill's points these tins at
Fussy eaters. Switching meat changes the flavour and leaves the rest of the meal alone
A leaner bowl, with the beef tin's fat at 3.0%
Dogs that need a little more, from the turkey at 4.2% fat
Owners who would rather buy a long-established name than an itemised label

Worth watching

Animal content beyond the 9% is undescribed, so none of the three can test for a food allergy
Estimated carbohydrate of 51.7% to 56.1% of dry matter, against 15.8% typical for adult wet food
Modest protein for a wet food, worth a thought for a dog you want kept well muscled

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

How this scores

How we score

38.1/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. If you chose wet food to keep starch down, check the carbohydrate figure first.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

With Chicken 39.4
With Beef 38.1
With Turkey 38.1

All three Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All three land well below the typical wet food because the labels say so little and carbohydrate runs high, which is a reading of the label and not a safety finding.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives, turkey9% turkeyThe turkey is the fixed point. The rest of the animal content can be any part of any warm-blooded land animal.
CerealsAny grain, unnamed.
Minerals
Oils and fatsFat of any origin, not tied to a source you can check.
Derivatives of vegetable origin

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, each with a printed dose that barely moves between the three tins.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (turkey 9%), cereals, minerals, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin.

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 18.3%; Beef 13.0%, chicken 14.8%
Protein, dry matter: 23.5%; The lowest of the three
Energy: 96 kcal per 100g; The highest of the three

The tin for a dog that needs a little more, and one that often suits a dog gone off poultry in its usual form.

One recipe in three tins. Each reads meat and animal derivatives with its meat named at 9%, then cereals, minerals, oils and fats, and derivatives of vegetable origin. Four of those five are legal umbrella terms, so the maker can adjust between batches without changing a word. Moisture is 77.0% across the range. What moves is the analysis: protein, fat and energy shift with the meat, and the beef tin carries the most estimated carbohydrate.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

96.2 kcal/100g

Protein

5.4%

Fat

4.2%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

1.2%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

23.5%

Fat

18.3%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

5.2%

Carbs

51.7%

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

43.6%

Added water

12%

Carbs

31.8%

Oils

4.7%

Other

7.9%

Pricing & size