Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Adult Dog Food with Chicken & added Vegetables review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Adult Dog Food with Chicken & added Vegetables
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

42.1/100Average

WetAdult

A wet tray built around a prebiotic blend, ActivBiome+, printed at 1.3% with all five of its parts named. Around that blend the label goes back to category terms, with chicken at 10% inside meat and animal derivatives. It sits in our Average band on nutritional balance, not on the digestive thinking.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with unsettled digestion, the need Hill's drew this recipe up for
Owners who want a functional blend they can actually read
Smaller adult dogs, the size the tray is positioned for
Fibre without bulk: crude fibre is 1.1% as fed, carried by beet pulp and flaxseed
Homes already on Hill's dry food that want a wet meal from the same maker beside it

Worth watching

Chicken at 10% is the only named animal, so a strict avoidance list has nothing to check
Carbohydrate at an estimated 51.2% of dry matter, from cereals the label does not name
Fruit and seeds listed with no species and no amount

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

How this scores

How we score

42.1/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. The 15kg portion guide is far more than a small dog eats, so work down from the tray's own feeding table.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Adult Dog Food with Chicken & added Vegetables 42.1

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The digestive blend is well declared; the unnamed cereals carrying the tray are what hold the nutritional balance back.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesChicken pinned at 10% inside it; the rest is unnamed and can change batch to batch.
CerealsUnnamed, and carrying a great deal of the tray.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetables3%
Eggs and egg derivativesA second animal source, though not a meat.
Minerals, fruit, seeds, oils and fatsFruit and seeds carry no species and no amount.
ActivBiome+: ground pecan shell, flaxseed, dried beet pulp, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries1.3%Beet and citrus pulp are established fermentable fibres; the cranberry is the flourish on the end.

Every added mineral carries a printed dose per kilo, iron at 12.0mg and zinc at 33.6mg, with copper, manganese and iodine behind them.

Carbohydrate estimated at 51.2% of dry matter, high for a wet food, from cereals that go unnamed.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 10%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables (3%), eggs and egg derivatives, minerals, fruit, seeds, oils and fats. ActivBiome+ Digestion prebiotic blend (1.3%): Ground pecan shell, flaxseed, dried beet pulp, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

101.6 kcal/100g

Protein

6.2%

Fat

4.1%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

23.8%

Fat

15.8%

Fibre

4.2%

Ash

Carbs

51.2%

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

44.9%

Added water

Carbs

36%

Veg

4.7%

Oils

1.3%

Other

4.1%

Pricing & size