Hill's Science Plan Sensitive Stomach & Skin Small & Mini Adult Dog Food with Turkey review

The band here is Average, and it is a verdict on the paperwork. One animal is named, at 11%, and legal categories cover the rest of the list, filled one way in one batch and another way in the next. That holds protein and processing, nutritional balance and transparency to Good. Most adult wet food climbs into our Excellent band by naming its meat and printing its shares, so the distance is real. Read the analysis instead of the ingredients and the picture warms up considerably. Protein sits at 28.5% of dry matter, fat at 17.3% and calcium at 0.92%, with a dose printed against every entry in a full mineral panel.

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and animal derivatives (turkey 11%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetable protein extracts, eggs and egg derivatives, vegetables, seeds, minerals, oils and fats.

Turkey is named at 11% and heads the list from inside the meat and animal derivatives entry. Turkey digests easily and carries less fat than chicken, so recipes for delicate dogs lean on it a great deal. At 11% it is a respectable printed share for a label of this style.

Cereals come second, unnamed, with derivatives of vegetable origin and vegetable protein extracts behind them. That combination is why estimated carbohydrate reaches 43.4% of dry matter, well above the 15.8% typical for adult wet food, and why the tray eats more like a soft loaf than like meat in jelly.

The analysis is fully declared, moisture included at 74.0%. Protein converts to 28.5% of dry matter and fat to 17.3%, and for a small dog with dry skin that fat figure is the number worth having. Energy comes in at 104 kcal per 100g, a shade above the 97 typical for adult wet food, so meals stay small.

Selenium is printed at 0.02mg per kilo, with iron at 18.2mg, zinc at 33.4mg and dosed copper, manganese and iodine completing the panel. Calcium converts to 0.92% of dry matter, an easy level for an adult dog of any size.

Sold in a 200 g tray.

A 1.5 kg dog is put at 150 grams a day on the label's own guide, and a 10 kg dog at 600 grams. Carried up to a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, needing about 840 kcal a day on the standard maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75), it would come to roughly 810 grams. A dog that size sits outside the range this tray is built around.