Hill's Prescription Diet

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

w/d with chicken is a fibre-heavy kibble, held in the Hill's Prescription Diet range. The maker positions it for dogs whose weight and digestion are being managed on veterinary advice.

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Hill's w/d with chicken is a fibre-heavy prescription kibble for dogs whose weight and digestion are being managed on a vet's advice. We do not score it. Crude fibre at 12.5% is the figure that defines it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a vet-led plan to fill up on fewer calories
Households that need to know the grains: wheat, maize, barley and oats are named on their own line
Moderate fat, at 12.4% of dry matter
Mineral doses printed on the panel

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives, with only the 9% chicken named
Oils and fats left unnamed
Wheat and maize among the carbohydrate sources

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The guide runs from 35 grams a day at 1kg to 665 grams at 50kg, and the vet sets the actual amount.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

CerealsNamed separately as wheat, maize, barley and oats.
Derivatives of vegetable originA category term.
Meat and animal derivatives (chicken)chicken 9%Covers any warm-blooded animal beyond the named chicken.
Vegetable protein extracts
Oils and fatsSource not named.
Minerals

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

Crude fibre at 12.5%, or 13.6% of dry matter, which is how the food fills a dog on fewer calories.

Named ingredients

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

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

317.6 kcal/100g

Protein

20.7%

Fat

11.4%

Fibre

12.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

22.5%

Fat

12.4%

Fibre

13.6%

Ash

5.4%

Carbs

46.1%

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

15.6%

Carbs

81.1%

Oils

3.3%

Pricing & size