Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet r/d 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.

In the Hill's Prescription Diet range this is r/d, a chicken-based dry diet. The maker offers it for weight reduction in dogs whose slimming is being supervised by a vet.

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Hill's r/d is a chicken-based dry veterinary diet, offered for weight reduction in dogs whose slimming is supervised by a vet. We do not score it. The recipe is arranged around fibre, with crude fibre at 13.3% of dry matter and fat held to 11.3%.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog on a vet-supervised weight-loss plan
Owners who want a fibre-led bowl: crude fibre is declared at 12.2%
Dogs of every size, with feeding set out by bodyweight from 1kg to 50kg
A printed trace mineral panel, each entry dosed

Worth watching

Category wording near the top, so the label cannot be read as an exclusion list
Chicken is the only animal named, at 12% inside meat and animal derivatives

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size on a vet's advice. On a weight-loss plan, feed the amount written down at the practice.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesChicken pinned at 12% inside the heading; any other animal goes unnamed.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
CerealsThe grain is not identified.
Vegetable protein extracts
Oils and fatsFat held down to 10.4% as declared.
Minerals, seeds

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

Category wording can cover more than one animal and can change between production runs without the printed words changing.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 12%), derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, minerals, seeds.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

311.8 kcal/100g

Protein

31.1%

Fat

10.4%

Fibre

12.2%

Ash

5.5%

Dry weight

Protein

33.8%

Fat

11.3%

Fibre

13.3%

Ash

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

39.5%

Carbs

53.2%

Oils

3.5%

Other

3.8%

Pricing & size