Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet i/d Puppy Food — dry (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.

i/d Puppy is Hill's Prescription Diet kibble for growing dogs, built on chicken for digestive care. It is meant to be fed while a young digestive system settles, under a vet's direction.

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Hill's Prescription Diet kibble for growing dogs, built on chicken for digestive care and meant to be fed while a young gut settles, under a vet's direction. The label pairs category wording with an itemised list of what Hill's calls its highly digestible ingredients, and prints every part of its prebiotic blend.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies whose vet has prescribed digestive care
Owners who want the prebiotic blend itemised, from ground pecan shell to dried cranberries
A pup that needs coaxing to eat during recovery feeding, with digest coating the kibble
Every size from toy to giant, with a feeding guide from 1kg to 40kg

Worth watching

Chicken, turkey meal, egg and fish oil on the animal side, with several entries given as a category and no species
Rice and maize lead the highly digestible list

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

The details

Dog fit

Fed to puppies on a vet's instruction, which takes precedence over the table on the bag. The guide runs from 80g a day for a 1kg pup to 1025g at 40kg.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Cereals: broken rice, brown rice, maizeCereals open the category list.
Meat and animal derivatives: chicken and turkey meal13% chickenThe category wording names no species beyond the chicken figure.
Eggs and egg derivatives: dried eggs
Oils and fats: animal fat, fish oilThe animal fat is unnamed.
DigestA palatant coating to keep a dog interested in the bowl.
Maize protein meal
ActivBiome+ Digestion: ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed4%Fibre for the bacteria in the gut.
Dried citrus pulp, dried cranberriesThe tail of the prebiotic blend.
Minerals

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, each dosed in print, with a natural antioxidant.

Several entries give a category and never a species, so a reaction cannot be traced to one animal from the label alone.

Named ingredients

Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 13%), eggs and egg derivatives, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, vegetable protein extracts, fruit, seeds. Highly digestible ingredients: Broken rice, brown rice, chicken and turkey meal, dried eggs, maize, digest, animal fat, maize protein meal, fish oil. ActivBiome+ Digestion prebiotic blend (4%): Ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376.9 kcal/100g

Protein

28.1%

Fat

17.2%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

6.6%

Dry weight

Protein

30.5%

Fat

18.7%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

41.5%

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

39.9%

Carbs

47.8%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

Other

2.1%

Pricing & size