Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet k/d Stew for Dogs 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.

The k/d stew is a kidney recipe served as chunks in gravy and flavoured with chicken. Hill's keeps it inside the Prescription Diet range and directs it at dogs whose kidney disease a vet is already managing.

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Hill's k/d stew is a kidney recipe in chunks and gravy, flavoured with chicken and fed on a vet's advice. We do not put a score on it. Low protein and generous fat follow from what Hill's set out to build, and what that means for one dog belongs to the vet holding the test results.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs whose kidney disease a vet is already managing
Dogs that have gone quiet about mealtimes and might take to chunks in gravy
Owners who want the protein sources named: chicken, pork liver and dried eggs
A wet option at 100 kcal per 100g, with portions printed from 1kg up to 50kg

Worth watching

Category wording such as meat and animal derivatives, cereals, and oils and fats, which will not clear a strict avoidance plan
Eggs on the list, for a dog with any egg history
Moisture at 77.7%, so the analysis only makes sense once the water is taken out

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Before ordering, check with the practice managing the condition that this is the diet and the portion they want.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativeschicken 5%Chicken is the one named share. The protein note below the list adds pork liver and dried eggs.
CerealsNo grain named.
Oils and fatsSource not given.
Derivatives of vegetable origin, various sugars
Vegetables1.1%
Minerals
Eggs and egg derivativesDried eggs, per the protein note.
Seeds, yeasts
ActivBiome+ Kidney Defense blend: betaine, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides0.29%Hill's prebiotic blend for the kidney range.

Iron, iodine, copper, zinc and selenium are dosed individually, manganese is printed twice under two identifiers, betaine is at 1.3g, and potassium alginate from brown seaweed holds the gravy and chunks in shape.

Grouped category wording will not clear a strict avoidance plan. Put the question to the vet who chose the food.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 5%), cereals, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, various sugars, vegetables (1.1%), minerals, eggs and egg derivatives, seeds, yeasts. Protein sources: Chicken, pork liver, dried eggs. ActivBiome+ Kidney Defense prebiotic blend (0.29%): Betaine, oat bran, fructo-oligosaccharides.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

99.5 kcal/100g

Protein

3.6%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.67%

Ash

0.92%

Moisture

77.7%

Dry weight

Protein

16.1%

Fat

24.7%

Fibre

Ash

4.1%

Carbs

52.1%

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

41.1%

Added water

12.7%

Carbs

36.2%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

6.8%

Other

2.1%