Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Stew for Dog with Chicken & Vegetables 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 Stew with chicken and vegetables is a chunk-in-sauce wet food from the Hill's Prescription Diet range. The maker positions it for weight management, in dogs a vet has started on a slimming plan.

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Hill's Metabolic Stew is a chunk-in-sauce wet food for weight management, fed to dogs a vet has started on a slimming plan. We do not put a score on it. Low calories per spoonful and fibre at 11.4% of dry matter are the point of the recipe.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose vet has started a weight-loss plan
A low-calorie bowl, at 70 kcal per 100g
Dogs that need a stew to stay keen on a controlled diet
Calcium in print, at 1.0% of dry matter

Worth watching

Only chicken and egg named, so no elimination trial can run from this label
Portions worked back from target weight, which is the practice's job

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Take the daily amount from your vet, since a slimming ration is set from the weight your dog is heading for.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken)1% chickenNot broken down beyond the chicken figure.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetables3.1%
Cereals, vegetable protein extracts, seedsNo grain or seed named.
Minerals, oils and fats
Various sugarsUsually about the sauce and how it tastes.
Eggs and egg derivatives

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc in modest amounts, plus potassium alginate as the gelling agent.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 1%), derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables (3.1%), cereals, vegetable protein extracts, seeds, minerals, oils and fats, various sugars, eggs and egg derivatives.

Against the range

One stew. A meat and animal derivatives entry leads with chicken declared at 1% inside it, then derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables at 3.1%, cereals and a run of category terms ending in eggs. Potassium alginate gives the chunk-in-sauce texture. Fibre is high and energy low, at 70 kcal per 100g, which is the brief of a slimming food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

70 kcal/100g

Protein

5.8%

Fat

2.3%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

1.2%

Moisture

79.9%

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

11.4%

Fibre

11.4%

Ash

Carbs

42.3%

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

35.5%

Added water

14.9%

Carbs

42.1%

Veg

3.1%

Oils

0.8%

Other

3.6%