Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet u/d Wet Dog Food Original 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.

Hill's markets this one inside its Prescription Diet range as u/d, a wet food formulated for the long-term dietary management of dogs with urinary and kidney conditions, built around a deliberately small protein contribution.

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Hill's u/d is a Prescription Diet wet food for the long-term dietary management of dogs with urinary and kidney conditions. We leave it unscored. It is built around a deliberately small protein contribution, and the label's order shows it: vegetable derivatives and eggs come before any meat.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs fed on a vet's advice for urinary or kidney conditions
A restricted-protein shape: 4.3% as declared, 13.7% of dry matter
Owners who want the urine alkalising substances dosed in print
Long stretches on one diet, with sugars on the list to keep it appetising

Worth watching

Pork is the only species identified, via pork liver; the other animal entries are categories
Calcium works out at 0.67% of dry matter
Carbohydrate is estimated at 52.0% of dry matter

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

The details

Dog fit

For adult dogs of every size, fed on a vet's prescription. The label's guide runs by bodyweight, but the portion belongs on the vet's instructions.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

What's in it

Derivatives of vegetable originFirst on the list, which is nothing like an everyday food.
Eggs and egg derivativesDried eggs are named as a protein source.
Oils and fatsFat does the work here, at 27.1% of dry matter.
Meat and animal derivativesPork liver is the named protein source.
Cereals
Various sugarsCarry energy and keep the food appetising.
Minerals, seeds
Calcium carbonate, potassium citrate, tetrasodium diphosphateUrine alkalising substances at 3.9, 2.0 and 0.7 g/kg: the mineral side steered on purpose.

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, each itemised with a figure.

Named ingredients

Derivatives of vegetable origin, eggs and egg derivatives, oils and fats, meat and animal derivatives, cereals, various sugars, minerals, seeds. Urine alkalising substances: Calcium carbonate (3.9 g/kg), Potassium citrate (2.0 g/kg), tetrasodium diphosphate (0.7 g/kg). Protein sources: Dried eggs, pork liver.

Against the range

A veterinary wet food for urinary and kidney conditions, unscored by us. Protein is held deliberately low at 13.7% of dry matter, fat carries the energy, and three urine alkalising substances are declared with their doses.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

144.6 kcal/100g

Protein

4.3%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

0.85%

Ash

1.4%

Moisture

68.6%

Dry weight

Protein

13.7%

Fat

27.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

4.5%

Carbs

52%

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

35.4%

Added water

3.6%

Carbs

51.4%

Oils

7.7%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size