Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Dog Food with Chicken, with Beef review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Dog Food with Chicken, with Beef
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

35.9/100Average

WetAdultSenior

Two senior tins that differ in flavour and very little else, and both read Average on our scoring. Chicken is named at 12% and beef at 5%, and everything behind those figures is a category term. Unnamed cereals carry much of the load, with carbohydrate at 55.6% of dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs in their later years
A bored senior. The two flavours swap without disturbing the rest of the meal
Older dogs that need dinner to be easy work, with soft chunks at 77.0% moisture
A gentle fat intake, at 13.5% of dry matter
Keeping one brand across a dog's whole life

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives, cereals and vegetable derivatives with no species or grain named, so no elimination diet
The beef tin identifies less of its animal content, at 5%
Carbohydrate well ahead of the 15.8% typical for adult wet food

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

How this scores

How we score

35.9/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult and senior dogs. Older dogs doing less tend to settle under our daily figure, so weigh yours every few weeks and adjust.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Dog Food with Chicken, with Beef 35.9

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A verdict on how much of the tin is described, not on how a dog fares on it; Hill's formulates to a fixed specification and many seniors have eaten this happily for years.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesAny part of any warm blooded land animal.
Chicken, or beef12% or 5%The named share inside the derivatives, and where the two tins part company.
CerealsAny grain at all, doing much of the work.
Minerals
Derivatives of vegetable originCovers nearly any plant material.
Oils and fatsFrom any source.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc per kilo, a whisker apart between the two tins.

One declared analysis covers both tins, so the nutrition figures will not tell them apart.

Named ingredients

With Chicken: COMPOSITION: Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 12%), cereals, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats.; with Beef: COMPOSITION: Meat and animal derivatives (beef 5%), cereals, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats.

Against the range

Two 370 g tins under one listing, chicken and beef, on the same five-entry label and one declared analysis. Meat and animal derivatives carry the named meat in brackets, followed by cereals, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin and oils and fats.

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

40%

Added water

12%

Carbs

36.9%

Oils

2.9%

Other

8.1%

Pricing & size