Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet w/d Wet 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.

The wet form of w/d is a chicken recipe, sold inside the Hill's Prescription Diet range. The maker presents it for dogs kept on a vet-led weight and digestion plan.

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A veterinary diet in the Hill's Prescription Diet range, which the maker presents for dogs on a vet-led weight and digestion plan. We give no score and no judgement here. What follows is what the label declares and what the analysis works out at.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs your vet has put on a weight and digestion plan
Fibre at 15.0% of dry matter, with energy at 82 kcal per 100g
No added oils or fats on the list
Mineral additions printed with figures, zinc at 41.8mg

Worth watching

Chicken and egg are both in the recipe, worth knowing if either is on your dog's avoid list
Large bowls: the guide asks 470 grams a day at 10kg and 1205 grams at 50kg

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. Whether your dog belongs on this diet, and for how long, is for the vet who recommended it to settle.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%)chicken 8%Chicken is named within a broader category entry.
Cereals (maize, barley flour, rice)The carbohydrate sources get a line of their own on the label.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Eggs and egg derivativesWith the meat, the source of the fat.
Minerals
Seeds

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, each with a figure against it.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals, seeds. Carbohydrate sources: Maize, barley flour, rice.

Against the range

A chicken recipe in the wet form of w/d, with no oils and fats entry: the 2.7% fat comes from the meat and the egg. Fibre is pushed up and calories thinned, which is the whole idea of a food like this.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

82.5 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

2.7%

Fibre

3.7%

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

75.3%

Dry weight

Protein

20.2%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

15%

Ash

5.3%

Carbs

48.6%

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

45.6%

Added water

10.3%

Carbs

41.7%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size