Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Dry Dog Food Original review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Hill's sells this one through its Prescription Diet range as Derm Complete. It is a dry food built on egg and rice in place of a named meat, offered for food sensitivities and the skin trouble that travels with them.

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A veterinary dry food from Hill's Prescription Diet range, built on egg and rice in place of a named meat and offered for food sensitivities and the skin trouble that comes with them. We have not scored it. It is meant to be fed on a vet's advice.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a diet their vet has set for food sensitivity or skin trouble
Egg and rice as the stated protein and carbohydrate
Fish as an oil only, so it brings fat without fish protein in the bowl
Every added mineral printed with its dose

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives names no animal, a line the packet alone will not resolve
Fish oil still means fish is in the food

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Portions on a therapeutic diet are normally set by the practice that prescribed it, so the label's table is only a starting point.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

CerealsNamed further down as broken rice and brown rice.
Oils and fats, including fish oil1.8% fish oilFish as oil, not flesh.
Eggs and egg derivativesDried whole eggs, the stated protein source.
Meat and animal derivativesCommits to no animal at all.
Vegetable protein extractsRice protein, by the label's own note.
Seeds, minerals
Derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables, fruit

Iron at 77.5mg, zinc at 136mg, copper at 7.6mg, manganese at 8.0mg, iodine at 1.9mg and selenium at 0.2mg, with a natural antioxidant.

Protein converts to 18.4% of dry matter, low by design on a diet restricted to egg and rice.

Named ingredients

Cereals, oils and fats (fish oil 1.8%), eggs and egg derivatives, meat and animal derivatives, vegetable protein extracts, seeds, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables, fruit. Carbohydrate sources: Broken rice, brown rice. Protein sources: Dried whole eggs, rice protein.

Against the range

The list is written in category terms and names no species, but Hill's names what carries the recipe underneath: broken rice and brown rice for carbohydrate, dried whole eggs and rice protein for protein. Fish oil is pulled out at 1.8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

375.6 kcal/100g

Protein

16.9%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

5.4%

Dry weight

Protein

18.4%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

5.9%

Carbs

57.7%

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

29.5%

Carbs

52.2%

Veg

0.8%

Oils

13.5%

Other

Pricing & size