Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic 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.

Metabolic is a chicken-based kibble in Hill's Prescription Diet range. The maker describes it as a weight management diet, for dogs whose weight is being brought down under veterinary supervision.

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Metabolic is a chicken-based kibble from Hill's Prescription Diet range, described by the maker as a weight management diet for dogs slimming under veterinary supervision. The label carries a heavy fibre load and modest fat, with energy declared at 310 kcal per 100g.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a slimming plan run by their vet
A high fibre load, 14.0% of dry matter, to fill a dog up on fewer calories
Modest fat, at 11.6% of dry matter
Added minerals with every dose printed

Worth watching

Category wording throughout: only chicken, at 8%, is named
Grains, vegetable protein sources and the oils and fats are all left unspecified

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. On a slimming plan the daily ration is usually set by the practice against a target weight and revised at each weigh-in.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%), vegetable protein extracts, vegetables, oils and fats, seeds, mineralschicken 8%Category wording. Chicken is the one species named; which grains, where the vegetable protein comes from and the oils and fats are left open.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, each with a printed dose, and a natural antioxidant.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Some of the protein comes from vegetable protein extracts, not only from the chicken.

Named ingredients

Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%), vegetable protein extracts, vegetables, oils and fats, seeds, minerals.

Against the range

A chicken-based weight management kibble written in category wording. Cereals lead, then derivatives of vegetable origin, then meat and animal derivatives with chicken at 8%. Crude fibre is declared at 12.9%, or 14.0% of dry matter, with fat modest at 11.6% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

310.1 kcal/100g

Protein

26.6%

Fat

10.7%

Fibre

12.9%

Ash

5.3%

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

11.6%

Fibre

14%

Ash

5.8%

Carbs

39.7%

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

16.4%

Carbs

74.8%

Veg

4.2%

Oils

2.3%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size