Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet On-Care 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.

On-Care is a calorie-dense and highly digestible kibble in the Hill's Prescription Diet range. The maker offers it as nutritional support for dogs whose appetite and body condition need holding up while a vet manages the wider problem.

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On-Care is a calorie-dense, highly digestible kibble from the Hill's Prescription Diet range, offered as support for dogs whose appetite and body condition need holding up while a vet manages the wider problem. We do not put a score on it. Energy reads 407 kcal per 100g, so a smaller bowl carries more calories.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs a vet has placed on it for appetite or body condition support
A small appetite: energy at 407 kcal per 100g
A reluctant eater, with digest coating the kibble for smell
A reader who wants the prebiotic blend itemised, at 4% and line by line

Worth watching

Chicken, turkey, wheat, maize and fish are all in the recipe, so check them against any sensitivity on record
Fat at 21.7% as declared, rich by design
No moisture is declared

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, fed on a vet's advice. The feeding guide reads 155 grams a day at 10kg; adjusting it as things change is a job for the practice.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

CerealsCategory wording; the second block names wheat and maize.
Meat and animal derivatives (chicken)15% chicken
Oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin
Minerals, fruit, seeds
ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend: ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed4%Food for the gut flora, each entry given its own line.
Dried citrus pulp, dried cranberriesClose the prebiotic blend.
Chicken and turkey meal, animal fatNamed in the highly digestible block.
Wheat, maize, maize gluten meal
DigestA processed animal palatant coating the kibble, so the bowl smells worth crossing the room for.
Fish oil, vegetable oil

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

Fish oil and digest mean fish and an unnamed animal palatant are in the recipe as well as poultry.

Named ingredients

Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 15%), oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, fruit, seeds. ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend (4%): Ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries. Highly digestible ingredients: Chicken and turkey meal, wheat, animal fat, maize, maize gluten meal, digest, fish oil, vegetable oil.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

406.6 kcal/100g

Protein

29.5%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

4.7%

Dry weight

Protein

32.1%

Fat

23.6%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

5.1%

Carbs

36.7%

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

25.3%

Carbs

57.6%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

8.2%

Other

7.2%

Pricing & size