Kitten Chicken Recipe
Hill's Science Diet Kitten Chicken Recipe is a dry kitten food with grains. Its first ingredients are chicken, brown rice and wheat gluten. It has an Ingredients score of 59/100, a Nutrition score of 8.5/10 and nothing on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $4.13/lb (15.5 lb bag at Chewy).
Label checked Oct 29, 2026 · Price checked Oct 26, 2026
How It Scores
The first 5 ingredients count for 70%, the rest for 30%.
- Chicken
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Brown Rice
- 2 / 5
- Grain, potato or other carb source
- Wheat Gluten
- 1 / 5
- Plant protein concentrate
- Chicken Fat
- 4 / 5
- Named animal fat
- Cracked Pearled Barley
- 2 / 5
- Grain, potato or other carb source
- Other ingredients
- 3.2 / 5
- Average of the other 26 ingredients
Avoid List
0The label lists none of the additives we count.
The number of unwanted additives on the label, counted separately from the two scores: 0 is best. How we score
Kitten targets. Values as listed on the label.
- Protein 33%
- 3.8 / 5
- Full points between 39% and 49%
- Fat 19%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 29%
- 4.2 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
- Fiber 4%
- not scored
- Shown for information.
What Is in It
Dry matter means the food with the water taken out. It lets you compare foods with different moisture fairly.
| On the label | Dry matter | |
|---|---|---|
| Protein (min) | 33% | 35.9% |
| Fat (min) | 19% | 20.7% |
| Fiber (max) | 4% | 4.3% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (estimate) | 29% | 31.5% |
| Moisture (max) | 8% | - |
| Calories | 4,067 kcal/kg · 553 kcal/cup | |
Label numbers are limits, not exact amounts: protein and fat are minimums, fiber and moisture are maximums.
Labels do not list carbohydrates, and this one does not list ash either. We estimate carbohydrates by assuming 7% ash, a typical value for dry cat food, and subtracting everything else from 100.
First 5 Ingredients
Ingredients are listed by weight, heaviest first. The first few usually make up most of the food.
All Ingredients (Label Order)
Chicken, Brown Rice, Wheat Gluten, Chicken Fat, Cracked Pearled Barley, Chicken Meal, Whole Grain Oats, Egg Product, Chicken Liver Flavor, Ground Pecan Shells, Lactic Acid, Potassium Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Flaxseed, Dried Beet Pulp, L-Lysine, Calcium Sulfate, Dried Citrus Pulp, Fish Oil, Choline Chloride, Iodized Salt, DL-Methionine, Pressed Cranberries, Cysteine, vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Taurine, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), Magnesium Oxide, Mixed Tocopherols for freshness, Natural Flavors, Beta-Carotene
Estimated Monthly Cost
Kittens eat more as they grow. By age, using the maker's daily amount and the cheapest bag.
The maker gives the daily amount as a range by age. We worked out the amount for each age from that range, so it is an estimate.
Bags and Stores
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Similar Price, Better Ingredients
Same age group, a higher Ingredients score, a Nutrition score no more than 0.5 lower and no more unwanted additives, at most 20% more per pound.
Data source: Feeding amounts are from the kitten feeding table on the Chewy product page, which gives cups by kitten weight within each age range. We used typical kitten weights for each age: about 2 lb at 2 months, 4 lb at 4 months and 7 lb at 8 months (our estimate).
Last checked: Oct 29, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction