Hill's Science Plan

Hill's Science Plan Puppy Food with Chicken, with Beef review

Name: Hill's Science Plan Puppy Food with Chicken, with Beef
Brand: Hill's Science Plan

41.7/100Average

WetPuppy

A growth tin in our Average band, sold on two meats when only one reaches the ingredients list. Beef is on the front and nowhere in the declaration. The printed analysis is the strong part, with calcium at 1.33% of dry matter, comfortably inside the window a growing skeleton needs.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies who clear a soft, spoonable meal faster than kibble
Owners who check the calcium figure first
Small breed puppies, the size the tin is listed for
Pups who need water going in with the food, at 76% moisture

Worth watching

Beef on the front, never in the declaration, so a pup that does well on beef is not guaranteed it
Cereals, vegetable derivatives and oils and fats can change from batch to batch under the same wording
Estimated carbohydrate at 37.9% of dry matter against 13.6% for a typical puppy tin

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

How this scores

How we score

41.7/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small breed puppies. A pup's portion keeps moving, so let the pack's chart and your dog's shape set the daily amount and revisit it monthly.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Hill's Science Plan Puppy Food with Chicken, with Beef 41.7

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The printed figures are complete and usable; the naming on the ingredients list is what holds this tin below the shelf around it.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativeschicken 21%A legal umbrella over any warm-blooded land animal. Only the chicken is named; nobody outside the factory can say how much is muscle.
CerealsWith the vegetable derivatives, the reason the starch estimate runs so high.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
MineralsCalcium declared, at 1.33% of dry matter.
Oils and fatsNo source named.

Dosed per kilo: zinc at 24.6 mg, iron at 9.6 mg, manganese at 2.1 mg, copper at 1.6 mg and iodine at 0.3 mg.

Beef is in the name but not on the ingredients list. Read this as a chicken recipe with unidentified animal material.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 21%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, oils and fats.

Against the range

One puppy tin. Chicken is declared at 21% inside meat and animal derivatives, and the rest of the list is legal categories: cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, oils and fats.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

98.7 kcal/100g

Protein

6.9%

Fat

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

1.8%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

28.8%

Fat

20.8%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Carbs

37.9%

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

41.7%

Added water

11%

Carbs

40.1%

Oils

2.7%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size