Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult 7+ review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult 7+
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

36/100Average

WetAdultSenior

A soft 370 g tin for small dogs past seven, with chicken declared at 12% and everything else in category terms. The analysis is gentle, but unnamed cereals carry a large share of it. Our reading is Average, a verdict on disclosure more than on anything unsettling in the tin.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs of seven and over
Tired teeth or a fading appetite: a soft tin asks nothing of them
A gentler meal, with fat at 13.5% of dry matter
A printed figure on the named meat, chicken at 12%
Seniors that ignore the water bowl, at 77.0% moisture

Worth watching

No glucosamine or chondroitin, so keep any joint supplement going
Modest protein, 22.6% of dry matter, for a dog losing muscle
Only the chicken is identified
Carbohydrate at 55.6% of dry matter against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food

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

How this scores

How we score

36/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult and senior dogs. If kidneys have put your dog on a restricted mineral plan, mention the calcium at 1.13% of dry matter to your vet.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult 7+ 36.0

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Partly the difficulty of scoring a gentle senior recipe, and mostly a label that describes very little of the tin.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativeschicken 12%Covers flesh and by-products of any warm-blooded land animal. The chicken is the fixed point, and a real one.
CerealsUnnamed, and carrying a large share of the recipe.
Minerals
Derivatives of vegetable originAnother category term.
Oils and fatsNo source named.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, each with a printed dose, a short and fully declared panel.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 12%), cereals, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats.

Against the range

A five-line composition: meat and animal derivatives with chicken named at 12%, then cereals, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin and oils and fats. Four of the five are legal category terms, free to change between batches. The added trace minerals each carry a dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

89.5 kcal/100g

Protein

5.2%

Fat

3.1%

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

22.6%

Fat

13.5%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

5.7%

Carbs

55.6%

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

42.7%

Added water

12%

Carbs

34.8%

Oils

2.8%

Other

7.7%

Pricing & size