Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic + Mobility Mini 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.

Metabolic plus Mobility Mini is the same combined weight and joint diet cut into a small kibble. Hill's puts it in the Prescription Diet range, aimed at little dogs already under a vet's care.

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Hill's combined weight and joint diet, cut into a small kibble for little dogs already under a vet's care. We do not score veterinary diets, so what follows is the label and the analysis with no judgement attached. Fibre is high at 15.7% of dry matter and energy moderate at 316 kcal per 100g, the intended shape of a food built to hold weight down.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs whose vet has prescribed a combined weight and joint diet
A smaller kibble than the standard bag of the same diet
Trace minerals printed with doses: zinc at 132mg, iron at 75.6mg

Worth watching

Fish oil and a molluscs and crustaceans entry beside chicken, so fish and shellfish are in the bowl
Cereals and meat listed as categories, with only the chicken share named

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs on a vet's advice. Your practice sets the daily amount from a target weight, so the table on the pack is background reading.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

CerealsLeads the list, unnamed.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Meat and animal derivatives (chicken)6%Ahead of the vegetable protein extracts here, unlike the standard bag.
Vegetable protein extracts
Seeds, vegetables
Oils and fats (fish oil)2.3%The fish oil is the only fat given a figure.
Minerals
Molluscs and crustaceansThe kind of entry that carries glucosamine into a joint recipe. Shellfish, for an allergy check.

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

Named ingredients

Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 6%), vegetable protein extracts, seeds, vegetables, oils and fats (fish oil 2.3%), minerals, molluscs and crustaceans.

Against the range

One small-kibble veterinary diet combining weight control and joint support. Cereals lead the declared list, chicken is given at 6% inside the meat and animal derivatives, and fish oil is broken out at 2.3%. A molluscs and crustaceans entry closes the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

315.6 kcal/100g

Protein

26.5%

Fat

12.9%

Fibre

14.4%

Ash

5.4%

Dry weight

Protein

28.8%

Fat

14%

Fibre

15.7%

Ash

5.9%

Carbs

35.6%

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

16.3%

Carbs

74.5%

Veg

2.7%

Oils

1.5%

Other

Pricing & size