Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Mini Dog Food 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.

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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Hill's puts Derm Complete Mini forward for small dogs with food sensitivities and the skin problems that come with them, fed on a vet's advice. We do not put a score on it. Egg and rice do the protein work, while several entries above them stay generic.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs whose vet has prescribed a skin and food-sensitivity diet
Protein sources named outright: dried whole eggs and rice protein
Fish oil itemised at 1.8%
Trace minerals dosed in print, zinc at 136mg among them

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives identifies no animal, which matters for a dog held off particular meats
Fish oil keeps fish on the label, though not as a protein
The amount is the prescribing vet's call

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs, with a feeding table that stops at 15kg. Confirm the portion with the vet who prescribed it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

CerealsNamed further down as broken rice and brown rice.
Oils and fats, including fish oil1.8% fish oil
Eggs and egg derivativesDried whole eggs are one of the two named protein sources.
Meat and animal derivativesNo animal identified.
Vegetable protein extractsRice protein, by the maker's own note.
Seeds, minerals
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetables, fruit

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, each dosed, with a natural antioxidant.

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 small-dog version of Derm Complete, declaring the same list and analysis as the standard bag. The list is written in category terms, then Hill's names its carbohydrate as broken and brown rice and its protein as dried whole eggs and rice protein. Moisture is not declared, so dry matter assumes 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