Hill's Prescription Diet j/d Wet Dog Food with Chicken review

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%), cereals, seeds, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, molluscs and crustaceans.

Meat and animal derivatives opens the tin with chicken declared at 8%, the only percentage the ingredient list gives you. Cereals follow, then seeds, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin and minerals. Those are all headings, not named ingredients. Only chicken is named as a species anywhere on it.

Shellfish appear at the end as molluscs and crustaceans. That is where the pet food trade normally draws glucosamine from, so its position in a joint recipe is unremarkable, but no figure is attached and the entry is easy to read past. Anyone keeping shellfish out of the bowl needs to know it is in there.

Moisture is declared at 71.6%, so the tin's face figures need converting before they say much. Protein comes out at 20.4% of dry matter, fat at 19.4% and the carbohydrate estimate at 50.3%, with crude fibre at 4.6%. Energy is 91 kcal per 100g. A therapeutic recipe is assembled to the targets its maker sets for the condition it names, so these proportions are description rather than a mark against ordinary tinned food.

On the mineral side, calcium works out at 0.7% once the water is taken out. Iron at 18.0mg, zinc at 46.4mg, copper at 3.0mg, manganese at 4.0mg and iodine at 0.6mg are all printed with a dose. No selenium figure appears in this particular declaration.

The feeding guide looks generous by volume for the good reason that most of the tin is water: 93 grams a day at 1kg, 425 grams at 10kg and 1085 grams at 50kg. The daily amount is normally settled at the practice, and the question of whether this recipe belongs in your dog's routine sits there too.

It is sold in 370g tins. At the guide printed on the label a 15kg dog would get through roughly 921 grams a day, which is about two and a half of them.