Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Wet 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.

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.

WetAdult

The wet partner to Hill's dry Derm Complete, offered for dogs with food sensitivities and the skin problems tied to them, so it carries no score from us. Rice protein and egg do the job a meat usually would. A wet food that opens on cereal is doing it on purpose here.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose food sensitivities and skin a vet is managing
Rice protein and dried eggs named as the protein sources
Moisture declared at 70.5%, so nothing has to be worked back
Every added mineral printed with its dose

Worth watching

A generic meat and animal derivatives entry low on the list, the one line to put in front of the vet
Volumes that climb fast at the top of the feeding table

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The pack shows 480 grams a day at 15kg, but the vet holding the case sets the amount.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

What's in it

CerealsRice, by Hill's own note.
Oils and fats
Vegetable protein extractsRice protein, named as a protein source.
Eggs and egg derivativesDried eggs, the other protein source.
Seeds
Minerals
Meat and animal derivativesLow in the order and generic: no species given.
Derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables, fruit

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, each with its dose printed.

Calcium is declared and works back to 0.75% of dry matter.

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.

Against the range

One wet Prescription Diet written in category headings: cereals first, then oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts and eggs. Hill's names rice protein and dried eggs as the protein sources and rice as the carbohydrate. No animal species is named anywhere.

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%