Hill's Prescription Diet w/d Dry Dog Food with Chicken review

Ingredients, as declared: Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 9%), vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, minerals. Carbohydrate sources: Wheat, maize, barley, oats.

Cereals open the label, followed by derivatives of vegetable origin and then meat and animal derivatives with chicken declared at 9% inside that entry, with vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats and minerals behind them. Hill's does name the carbohydrate sources on a separate line, wheat, maize, barley and oats, which is more detail than the main list gives up.

That extra line helps in one direction and not the other. You know the grains, so a household avoiding wheat or maize can settle the question straight away. The meat entry still covers whatever warm-blooded animals went in beyond the 9% chicken, and the fats stay unnamed.

The entry that gives this kibble its character is crude fibre, declared at 12.5% and converting to 13.6% of dry matter. Protein reads 20.7%, or 22.5% of dry matter, and fat 11.4%, which is 12.4% dry. A food meant to fill a dog on fewer calories is put together in exactly this way. Those readings are the recipe working as intended.

The carbohydrate estimate is 46.1% of dry matter and energy is 318 kcal per 100g, printed on the pack as a calculated 13.3 MJ per kilogram. Portions run from 35 grams a day for a 1kg dog through 200 grams at 10kg and 335 grams at 20kg to 665 grams at 50kg. What your dog should actually be having is for the vet to specify rather than for the table to decide.

Added minerals come with doses printed, iron 76.2mg, iodine 1.9mg, copper 7.5mg, manganese 7.9mg, zinc 134mg and selenium 0.2mg, and a natural antioxidant closes the panel.

It is sold in 1.5kg, 4kg and 10kg bags. Fed to the label's guide, a 15kg dog would take about 264 grams a day.