Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet j/d Reduced Calorie Dry Dog Food 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.

j/d Reduced Calorie is Hill's joint diet with the energy pulled down, sold in the Prescription Diet range. It is a high fibre kibble, aimed by the maker at dogs needing mobility support while their weight is held in check.

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Hill's joint diet with the energy pulled down, from the Prescription Diet range. It is a high fibre kibble, aimed by the maker at dogs that need mobility support while their weight is held in check. The label is written in categories, with chicken the one species it names.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose vet has prescribed a joint diet with weight control
A reduced calorie design, with crude fibre at 9.1% diluting the energy in every mouthful
Energy at 341 kcal per 100g, protein at 23.4% of dry matter
Owners who want each trace element printed with its dose

Worth watching

Molluscs and crustaceans at the end of the list, if shellfish is kept away from your dog
Category naming: cereals, vegetable derivatives and a meat heading that stops at chicken, so take it to the vet before asking it to exclude anything

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, on prescription. How much to feed and for how long is set by the practice that prescribed it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

CerealsFirst on the list; could mean any grain.
Vegetable protein extracts
Derivatives of vegetable originA wide field of plant processing.
Meat and animal derivativeschicken 5%Chicken is the only species named; the rest of the entry is not identified.
Seeds
Oils and fats
Minerals
Molluscs and crustaceansShells are the usual commercial route to glucosamine. No percentage printed.

Iron at 75.9mg, zinc at 133mg, copper at 7.5mg, manganese at 7.8mg, iodine at 1.9mg and selenium at 0.2mg, with a natural antioxidant.

Shellfish on the label: molluscs and crustaceans close the recipe.

Named ingredients

Cereals, vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 5%), seeds, oils and fats, minerals, molluscs and crustaceans.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

341 kcal/100g

Protein

21.5%

Fat

12.8%

Fibre

9.1%

Ash

4.6%

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

13.9%

Fibre

9.9%

Ash

Carbs

47.8%

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

10.7%

Carbs

81.1%

Oils

2.3%

Other

5.9%

Pricing & size