Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet On-Care Stew for Dogs 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 Stew is the wet form of the same recovery-facing diet, chunks in sauce from the Hill's Prescription Diet range. It is made for a dog whose interest in food needs coaxing while a vet handles the underlying problem.

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Hill's On-Care Stew is the wet, chunks-in-sauce form of a recovery diet, made for a dog whose interest in food needs coaxing while a vet deals with the underlying problem. We do not put a score on it. Pork liver heads the block of ingredients Hill's lists as highly digestible.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs recovering under a vet's care whose appetite has dropped
A dense bowl: fat reads 24.4% of dry matter, so calories go in without much volume
Owners who want the digestible ingredients named, from pork liver down to animal fat
Adult dogs of any size, on the vet's plan

Worth watching

Pork, chicken, fish, egg and wheat all in the recipe; a dog with a reaction on record needs the vet's read first
The opening entries are written as categories, so the full make-up is not on the pack
A bigger dog can need several packs a day, and the practice may set a different amount again

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The vet's feeding instruction outranks the table on the pack, so confirm the amount with the practice before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesChicken is printed at 10% inside it.
Derivatives of vegetable origin, cerealsCategory terms with no plant or grain named.
Oils and fats
Vegetables1.6%
Vegetable protein extracts, minerals, fruit
Eggs and egg derivatives, seedsEgg, for a dog with an egg reaction on record.
Highly digestible block: pork liver, chicken, rice starch, rice flour, digestThe most informative part of the pack. Liver is dense in nutrients and very tempting to a dog off its food.
Wheat gluten, vegetable oil, rice, fish oil, coconut oil, dried eggs, animal fatWheat and fish both appear here. The animal fat names no species.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc each dosed by the kilo, with potassium alginate holding the sauce together.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 10%), derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, oils and fats, vegetables (1.6%), vegetable protein extracts, minerals, fruit, eggs and egg derivatives, seeds. Highly digestible ingredients: Pork liver, chicken, rice starch, rice flour, digest, wheat gluten, vegetable oil, rice, fish oil, coconut oil, dried eggs, animal fat.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

90.9 kcal/100g

Protein

6.6%

Fat

Fibre

0.45%

Ash

1.2%

Moisture

79.5%

Dry weight

Protein

32.2%

Fat

24.4%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

5.9%

Carbs

35.3%

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

38%

Added water

14.5%

Carbs

39.6%

Veg

2.6%

Oils

3.9%

Other

1.4%