Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet r/d Weight Reduction 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.

r/d Weight Reduction is a wet food, and Hill's carries it in the Prescription Diet range. The maker intends it for dogs losing weight to a plan their vet has set.

WetAdult

A wet weight-reduction diet from the Hill's Prescription Diet range, meant for dogs losing weight to a plan their vet has set. The build is the standard one for a reducing food: fat at 8.8% of dry matter and fibre at 13.6%. Energy is 81 kcal per 100g.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a vet-set weight-loss plan
A full-looking bowl on few calories, since the food is so dilute
Owners who want calcium declared, here at 0.88% of dry matter
Adults of any size, as the range lists them

Worth watching

No ingredient names an animal apart from the eggs, so the list cannot settle an exclusion trial
Umbrella terms mean the mix behind them can move with supply

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, fed under veterinary direction. The label's table puts a 15kg dog on roughly 430 grams a day, a little over one pack.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesNo species named.
CerealsNo grain named.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetable protein extracts
Eggs and egg derivativesThe only entry that says what it came from.
Oils and fats
Minerals

Iron at 15.5mg, iodine at 0.5mg, copper at 2.6mg, manganese at 3.4mg and zinc at 39.9mg, all printed.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives, cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetable protein extracts, eggs and egg derivatives, oils and fats, minerals.

Against the range

A single wet veterinary diet built around calories and bulk: very little fat, plenty of fibre, and three quarters of the pack water. Only the eggs on the list say what animal they came from, and the added minerals carry printed doses.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

80.6 kcal/100g

Protein

8.4%

Fat

2.2%

Fibre

3.4%

Ash

1.7%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

33.6%

Fat

8.8%

Fibre

13.6%

Ash

6.8%

Carbs

37.2%

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

42.9%

Added water

10%

Carbs

44.7%

Oils

1.5%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size