Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Mini 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 Mini is the small-kibble version of the Hill's weight management diet, carried in the Prescription Diet range. It is meant for little dogs whose weight a vet is working to bring down.

DryAdult

The small-kibble version of Hill's weight management diet, for little dogs whose weight a vet is working to bring down. Its signature is fibre: 14.0% of dry matter, giving the bowl bulk without much energy behind it. We do not score veterinary diets, so this page sets out the label and leaves the judgement to your vet.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs on a vet-led slimming plan
A smaller piece of the standard Metabolic formula
Owners who want the trace mineral doses printed

Worth watching

Only the chicken is named to a species. Grains, oils and the rest are categories, a question for the dispensing vet if reactions are part of the picture

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs, fed on a vet's advice. On a therapeutic slimming plan the practice usually sets the daily amount from target weight.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

CerealsFirst on the list, no grain named.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Meat and animal derivativeschicken 8%The only animal named to a species.
Vegetable protein extracts
VegetablesA category, nothing named.
Oils and fatsNo source given.
Seeds, minerals

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium each carry a dose, zinc at 135mg, with a natural antioxidant.

Moisture is not declared; dry-matter figures assume 8%.

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

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