Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Dog Stew with Chicken & added Vegetables review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Dog Stew with Chicken & added Vegetables
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

35.2/100Average

WetAdultSenior

A gentle gravy stew for older small dogs, and Average because the label tells you so little. Chicken is pinned at 6% and almost everything else sits under a category name. The analysis is modest and the tray light, at 85 kcal per 100g.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older small dogs, the group Hill's builds it for
Teeth or jaws past their best; everything in the tray is soft
A fussy senior. Warm gravy smells far stronger than a dry meal
Topping up a dry bowl, at 85 kcal per 100g against the 97 typical of adult wet food
Owners who like a name their vet's waiting room has stocked for decades

Worth watching

Chicken is the only animal named, so the tray cannot anchor an elimination diet
Various sugars on the list with no amount given
No moisture or ash in the analysis

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

How this scores

How we score

35.2/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior small dogs. Many owners serve it alongside a dry meal, so set the two portions together.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Mature Adult Dog Stew with Chicken & added Vegetables 35.2

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The reading is about how little the label declares; generations of older dogs have done perfectly well on food written this way.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesWhatever the batch brings, around the fixed chicken. Hygiene is not the issue; the wording is.
Chicken6%The only animal named.
CerealsAny grain at all.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetables1.7%
Oils and fats
Minerals, eggs and egg derivatives
Various sugarsRare on a wet list. Generally there for colour and palatability, which counts when an old dog needs tempting.
Seeds

Iron at 16.7mg and zinc at 43.0mg per kilo, with dosed iodine, copper and manganese: the one place the label puts figures down.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 6%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables (1.7%), oils and fats, minerals, eggs and egg derivatives, various sugars, seeds.

Against the range

A single soft stew written almost entirely in legal category terms. Chicken at 6% is the one fixed point; the rest is meat and animal derivatives, cereals and derivatives of vegetable origin. Moisture and ash are not declared, so the tray cannot be put on a full dry matter footing.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

85.3 kcal/100g

Protein

5.2%

Fat

3.5%

Fibre

0.6%

Dry weight

Protein

23.6%

Fat

15.9%

Fibre

2.7%

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

18.7%

Added water

59%

Carbs

17.4%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

1.9%

Other

1.4%