Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet i/d Low Fat Digestive Care Wet Dog Food Original Can 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.

In a tin, i/d Low Fat Digestive Care is a reduced fat version of Hill's digestive recipe. It sits in the Prescription Diet range, offered for dogs whose fat intake is being held down while their gut is managed.

WetAdult

Hill's i/d Low Fat in a tin is the reduced fat version of the brand's digestive recipe. It is fed on a vet's advice to dogs whose fat intake is being held down while the gut is managed. We do not put a score on it. Fat converts to 8.2% of dry matter, with starch filling the space the fat leaves.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs whose vet has recommended a low fat digestive diet
A named prebiotic blend at 1.8%, fibres there to feed the gut bacteria
Dogs off their food after illness: digest is added to make the tin more appealing
Owners who want the trace minerals dosed, iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc each with a figure

Worth watching

Category wording at the top of the list, with pork, chicken, egg and fish oil named further down. Hard to run an exclusion plan from without asking Hill's
Pork printed ahead of chicken on a tin filed under poultry
Portion and how long to feed it are the vet's call

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The tin's guide puts a 15kg dog at 515 grams a day; check that portion with the vet managing the case 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 derivativesNo species given here. The second list names pork and chicken.
CerealsRice, rice flour and maize, going by the named list.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Eggs and egg derivativesDried eggs in the named list.
Minerals, seeds
Oils and fatsVegetable oil and fish oil, so fish is in the tin.
Vegetables, fruit
Highly digestible ingredients: pork, rice, rice flour, maize, chicken, dried eggs, digest, vegetable oil, fish oilHill's own second list. Digest is a palatant brushed on to make the food smell more interesting.
ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend: dried beet pulp, flaxseed, ground pecan shell, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries1.8%Fibre sources for the gut bacteria.

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

Pork, chicken, egg and fish all appear, and the category terms could hold more. Ask Hill's before using it for an exclusion plan.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives, cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals, seeds, oils and fats, vegetables, fruit. Highly digestible ingredients: Pork, rice, rice flour, maize, chicken, dried eggs, digest, vegetable oil, fish oil. ActivBiome+ Prebiotic blend (1.8%): Dried beet pulp, flaxseed, ground pecan shell, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

94.9 kcal/100g

Protein

6.5%

Fat

2.1%

Fibre

0.52%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

74.3%

Dry weight

Protein

25.3%

Fat

8.2%

Fibre

Ash

5.8%

Carbs

58.7%

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

46.6%

Added water

9.3%

Carbs

36.9%

Veg

0.6%

Oils

2.7%

Other

3.9%