Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Mini Dog Food review

Name: Hill's Prescription Diet Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Mini Dog Food
Brand: Hill's Prescription Diet

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.

Derm Complete Mini is the small dog version, and Hill's keeps it in the same Prescription Diet range. The maker puts it forward for food sensitivities and the skin problems that come with them, again with egg and rice standing in for meat.

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The Details

Dog fit

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: 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.

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.

Nutritional additives

Nutritional additives: 3b103 (Iron) 77.5mg, 3b202 (Iodine) 1.9mg, 3b405 (Copper) 7.6mg, 3b502 (Manganese) 8.0mg, 3b603 (Zinc) 136mg, 3b801 (Selenium) 0.2mg, with natural antioxidant.

What's on the label

Everything declared on this bag matches the standard Derm Complete, from the category level list down to the figures in the analysis. What is different is who Hill's aims it at, a small dog, and a feeding table that runs no further than 15kg.

Cereals open the order and oils and fats follow, with fish oil itemised at 1.8%. After those come eggs and egg derivatives, meat and animal derivatives, vegetable protein extracts, seeds, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables and fruit. Hill's then names its carbohydrate as broken rice and brown rice, and its protein as dried whole eggs together with rice protein. Egg and rice do the work while several entries above them stay generic.

Owners holding a dog away from particular meats will want to read the meat and animal derivatives line closely. It identifies no animal. Fish is in the food too, as oil rather than as a meat, which keeps fish protein out of the recipe while the fish label still applies to it.

As fed, the analysis gives 16.9% protein, 15.2% fat, 1.4% crude fibre and 5.4% ash. Taken to dry matter those read 18.4%, 16.5%, 1.5% and 5.9%, with carbohydrate estimated at 57.7% and the packet declaring 376 kcal per 100g. Those proportions are what a recipe restricted to one protein source produces by design, and whether the design fits your dog is settled in the consulting room.

Trace minerals are dosed in print, 77.5mg iron, 1.9mg iodine, 7.6mg copper, 8.0mg manganese, 136mg zinc and 0.2mg selenium, alongside a natural antioxidant. The bag's guide begins at 50 grams a day for a 2kg dog, gives 100 grams at 5kg and 135 grams at 7.5kg, then tops out at 230 grams for a 15kg dog. The amount your dog is meant to have comes from the vet who prescribed it.

Price and where to buy

One bag size is listed for this version, 6kg, at £7.70 a kilo.

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