Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Gastrointestinal Biome Wet Dog Food with Chicken 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.

Hill's places this in its Prescription Diet range as Gastrointestinal Biome, a chicken wet food the maker presents as fibre led feeding for dogs whose gut is being managed by a vet.

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Hill's Gastrointestinal Biome is a chicken wet food in the Prescription Diet range, presented as fibre led feeding for dogs whose gut is being managed by a vet. We do not put a score on it. The ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend is declared at 3.2% and broken out ingredient by ingredient.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs whose vet has recommended a fibre led gut diet
Owners who want the prebiotic blend itemised, from pecan shell to cranberry
A fibre level written in on purpose: 7.3% of dry matter
Any size, with the label's table running from a 1kg dog to a 50kg one

Worth watching

Chicken, pork and fish all on the list, under an opening line that names none of them
Cereals, oils and fats given only as headings

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. On a gut case both the amount and the speed of the changeover belong to the vet, so confirm both before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesChicken pulled out at 6%; no other species named here.
Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin
Oils and fats, minerals
Fruit, seeds, vegetables
Pork liver, chicken, riceListed by Hill's as the highly digestible part. Pork liver leads it, a fair sign of where much of the animal content sits.
Animal fat, fish oil, vegetable oilFish arrives through the oil.
ActivBiome+: ground pecan shell, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried beet pulp, dried cranberries3.2%Fibre aimed at the bacteria in the gut, and its share shows in the analysis.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc each dosed in print, zinc the largest at 45.9mg.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 6%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, minerals, fruit, seeds, vegetables. Highly digestible ingredients: Pork liver, chicken, rice, animal fat, fish oil, vegetable oil. ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend (3.2%): Ground pecan shell, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried beet pulp, dried cranberries.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

96.6 kcal/100g

Protein

5.1%

Fat

3.6%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

1.9%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

19.6%

Fat

13.8%

Fibre

7.3%

Ash

7.3%

Carbs

52%

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

40.5%

Added water

Carbs

37.6%

Veg

1.8%

Oils

7.6%

Other

3.5%

Pricing & size