Hill's Science Plan

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

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

41.1/100Average

WetAdultSenior

A light weight-loss tray that does the calorie job properly: crude fibre lifted to 3.4% as fed and energy held to 90 kcal per 100g. It lands in our Average band because so much of it is declared by category. Chicken is named at 4%, vegetables at 7%, and no cereal appears by name.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult and older dogs carrying more weight than they should
Dogs that beg between meals. Fibre at 3.4% as fed is high for a wet food, and fibre keeps a dog feeling fed
Owners counting calories, at 90 kcal per 100g against the 97 typical of adult wet food
Small adults and seniors, the size and life stage Hill's lists it for
Households that would sooner not see a named cereal in the bowl

Worth watching

Only chicken is named, at 4%. The rest is meat and animal derivatives, so no elimination diet can be built on it
Derivatives of vegetable origin can cover grain products, so this is no grain-free promise
Neither moisture nor ash is declared, so there is no dry matter conversion

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

How this scores

How we score

41.1/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult and senior dogs. On a reducing plan, feed the amount your vet sets, which will sit under the maintenance figure.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Perfect Weight Adult Dog Food with Chicken & Vegetables 41.1

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The score is held back by how much of the label is written in category terms, while the calorie work it does is sound.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 4%)4% chickenA legal term that spans the whole quality range. Only the chicken is pinned, the rest could be any animal or cut.
Derivatives of vegetable originBroad enough to include grain products.
Vegetables7%Where a weight recipe earns its keep.
Vegetable protein extractsHelp lift protein to 7.4% as fed, from a plant that is not named. Worth knowing if soya or maize is on your avoid list.
Eggs and egg derivatives
Seeds
Oils and fatsNo source given for the fat.
Minerals, fruit

Iron at 12.4mg and zinc at 33.2mg per kilo, with copper, manganese and iodine each carrying a figure.

No moisture or ash on the label, so the dry matter figures here rest on an assumed moisture.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 4%), derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables (7%), vegetable protein extracts, eggs and egg derivatives, seeds, oils and fats, minerals, fruit.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

90.4 kcal/100g

Protein

7.4%

Fat

3.3%

Fibre

3.4%

Dry weight

Protein

33.6%

Fat

15%

Fibre

15.5%

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

19.5%

Added water

55.8%

Carbs

15.4%

Veg

7.3%

Oils

0.6%

Other

1.4%