Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Puppy 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.

Derm Complete Puppy is the growth version of the diet, sold under the Hill's Prescription Diet label. The maker positions it for young dogs with food sensitivities and skin trouble, kept on egg and rice as its protein.

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Hill's growth diet for young dogs with food sensitivities and skin trouble, kept on egg and rice for its protein. It is a veterinary diet, made for a diagnosed condition and fed on a vet's advice, so we do not score it. What follows is what the label declares.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies already on a vet's plan for food sensitivities or skin trouble
Protein from dried whole eggs and rice protein concentrate, both named
Broken rice as the single named carbohydrate
Trace minerals each printed with a dose

Worth watching

The list stays in categories, including meat and animal derivatives with no species
No fish oil itemised, so the fat sits behind an oils and fats heading
No calcium figure anywhere in the declared analysis

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

The details

Dog fit

Sold for growing dogs on a vet's advice. Feeding runs from 55 grams a day at 1kg to 535 grams at 20kg, and a growing dog's portion is normally reset by the vet as the weight climbs.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

What's in it

CerealsBroken rice is the one Hill's names.
Eggs and egg derivativesDried whole eggs, a named protein source.
Vegetable protein extractsRice protein concentrate.
Oils and fatsNot itemised, and no species given.
Minerals
Meat and animal derivativesUnnamed animal, which matters on an exclusion plan.
Seeds, derivatives of vegetable origin

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, each with a dose, finished with a natural antioxidant.

No calcium figure in the declared analysis, so the packet does not answer how much is in the bag.

Named ingredients

Cereals, eggs and egg derivatives, vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, minerals, meat and animal derivatives, seeds, derivatives of vegetable origin. Carbohydrate source: Broken rice. Protein sources: Dried whole eggs, rice protein concentrate.

Against the range

The growth version of the Derm Complete diet. Egg and rice carry the protein, with broken rice the single named carbohydrate, and the rest of the list is written in categories.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372 kcal/100g

Protein

23.4%

Fat

16.2%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

7.1%

Dry weight

Protein

25.4%

Fat

17.6%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

47.9%

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

32.2%

Carbs

57.4%

Oils

5.4%

Other

Pricing & size