Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Medium Breed Puppy Food with Chicken & Brown Rice review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Medium Breed Puppy Food with Chicken & Brown Rice
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

62.1/100Good

DryPuppy

The medium-breed member of Hill's Perfect Digestion range, and richer than its large-breed stablemate. Chicken and turkey meal lead, with chicken at 18% of a 28% poultry total, and a 4% ActivBiome+ blend does the digestion work. Calcium is declared and in range. It sits in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium-breed puppies
Pups with easily unsettled digestion, given the prebiotic blend of pecan shell, beet pulp, flaxseed, citrus pulp and cranberries
Owners who read the calcium line first: 1.57% of dry matter, inside the growth range
Busy pups. Fat is declared at 16.8%
Meat quantified twice on the label

Worth watching

Maize second on the list, with maize protein meal lower down
Animal fat and digest name no species, and fish oil is in the mix
Carbohydrate at 42.4% of dry matter, a little above the puppy typical

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

How this scores

How we score

62.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Sold for medium-breed puppies. The ration climbs through the fastest months then eases, so start from the bag's table and update it as the weeks pass.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Perfect Digestion Medium Breed Puppy Food with Chicken & Brown Rice 62.1

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Squarely mainstream: quantified poultry and a spelled-out prebiotic blend lift it, and the maize keeps the balance where it is.

What's in it

Chicken and turkey mealchicken 18%; total poultry 28%A meal, so the share holds its weight in the kibble.
MaizeSecond on the list.
Animal fatNo species named.
Brown rice, broken rice7%
DigestThe flavour coating, also unnamed.
Barley, oats, minerals
Ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries4% (ActivBiome+ blend)Fermentable and bulking fibres for a steadier gut.
Maize protein mealPlant protein in the headline figure.
Fish oil, vegetable oilFish oil is the marine omega 3.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, each with a printed dose per kilo.

Named ingredients

Chicken and turkey meal (chicken 18%; total poultry 28%), maize, animal fat, brown rice (7%), broken rice, digest, barley, oats, minerals, ground pecan shell, maize protein meal, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, fish oil, vegetable oil, dried cranberries. ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend (4%): Ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

371 kcal/100g

Protein

26.6%

Fat

16.8%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.4%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

18.3%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

Carbs

42.4%

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

40.4%

Carbs

46.5%

Oils

7.4%

Other

5.7%

Pricing & size