Hill's Science Plan Sensitive Stomach & Skin Dog Food with Chicken review

The band here is Average, and a few things drive it together. The recipe is described in categories and never named, and the cereal estimate runs high for a food served out of a tray. The animal content amounts to a single 12% figure inside a broader term. That leaves protein and processing, nutritional balance and transparency all reading Good, while adult wet food as a category sits in our Excellent band because most wet labels do name their meat. None of that says the food will disagree with a dog. Plenty of sensitive dogs settle on it, and the analysis underneath is a solid one, with protein at 27.7% of dry matter and fat at 17.7%.

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 12%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetable protein extracts, eggs and egg derivatives, vegetables, seeds, minerals, oils and fats.

Chicken is named at 12% inside a meat and animal derivatives entry, so a little more of the animal content is visible here than on most labels written this way. The remainder stays unspecified, and that term legally covers everything from prime material down to the parts nobody prints, with no way to tell from the outside which end of the range arrived.

Cereals follow with no name attached, and derivatives of vegetable origin and vegetable protein extracts come in behind them. Against the 15.8% on a typical adult wet food, carbohydrate here comes to an estimated 44.2% of dry matter. The plant side of this recipe is doing considerably more work than the wet shelf average.

The analysis is complete and the figures are decent. Moisture is declared at 70.0%, less water than most wet trays carry, which is why the energy lands at 121 kcal per 100g. Protein converts to 27.7% of dry matter and fat to 17.7%. That fat level is the part most relevant to a coat in need of help, since skin condition leans on the fat in a diet more than on anything else.

Selenium joins the mineral panel on this recipe at 0.02mg per kilo, alongside iron at 18.9mg, zinc at 34.8mg and dosed copper, manganese and iodine. Calcium converts to 0.93% of dry matter, an unremarkable and comfortable level for an adult dog of the sizes this tray is aimed at.

Sold in a 370 g tray.

As a portion guide, an adult dog of 15kg in moderate condition needs roughly 840 kcal a day on the standard maintenance estimate of 110 × bodyweight^0.75. This recipe reaches that in about 697 grams. That is a smaller daily weight than most wet food asks for, because each gram here carries less water and more food.