Hill's Prescription Diet

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

Name: Hill's Prescription Diet Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Wet Dog Food Original
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.

The wet Derm Complete sits in the same Prescription Diet range as its dry namesake. Hill's offers it for dogs with food sensitivities and the skin problems tied to them, and rice protein and egg do the job a meat would usually do.

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The Details

Dog fit

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Cereals, oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, eggs and egg derivatives, seeds, minerals, meat and animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables, fruit. Protein sources: Rice protein, dried eggs. Carbohydrate source: Rice.

Named ingredients

Cereals, oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, eggs and egg derivatives, seeds, minerals, meat and animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables, fruit. Protein sources: Rice protein, dried eggs. Carbohydrate source: Rice.

Nutritional additives

Nutritional additives: 3b103 (Iron) 33.5mg, 3b202 (Iodine) 1.1mg, 3b405 (Copper) 4.3mg, 3b502 (Manganese) 3.6mg, 3b603 (Zinc) 48.9mg, 3b801 (Selenium) 0.03mg.

What's on the label

Cereals head this label, followed by oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, then eggs and egg derivatives, seeds, minerals, meat and animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables and fruit. Hill's names rice as the carbohydrate underneath and rice protein with dried eggs as the protein, so a wet food that opens on cereal is doing it deliberately.

Nothing on this recipe names an animal species. The meat and animal derivatives entry sits low in the order and stays generic, and no fish oil is itemised. If your dog is being held to particular proteins, there is one line to put in front of the vet and not much else.

Moisture is declared here, at 70.5%, so nothing has to be worked back. The analysis in the pack reads 5.9% protein, 5.0% fat, 0.5% crude fibre and 1.5% ash. On a dry matter basis that is 20.0% protein, 16.9% fat, 1.5% fibre and 5.1% ash. Carbohydrate is estimated at 16.7% as fed and 56.5% dry. Energy comes in at 121 kcal per 100g.

The added minerals carry doses in print, 33.5mg iron, 1.1mg iodine, 4.3mg copper, 3.6mg manganese, 48.9mg zinc and 0.03mg selenium. Calcium is declared as well and works back to 0.75% once the water is taken out.

Feeding on the pack opens at 93 grams a day for a 1kg dog, shows 420 grams at 10kg and runs to 1065 grams for a 50kg dog. Volumes on a wet therapeutic diet climb quickly at the top of that scale. The vet holding the case sets the amount.

Price and where to buy

It is sold in 200g and 370g packs.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

121.2 kcal/100g

Protein

5.9%

Fat

Fibre

0.45%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

70.5%

Dry weight

Protein

20%

Fat

16.9%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

5.1%

Carbs

56.5%

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

12.2%

Added water

5.5%

Carbs

63.5%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

13.6%

Other

4.7%