Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet z/d Mini Food Sensitivities Dry Dog Food Original Bag 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.

z/d Mini is the small-kibble version of Hill's hydrolysed food sensitivities diet, sold in the Prescription Diet range for little dogs and fed on a vet's say-so.

DryAdult

The small-kibble version of Hill's hydrolysed food sensitivities diet, from the Prescription Diet range; we do not score veterinary diets. The protein source is chicken liver hydrolysate, printed at 26% of the bag, and maize starch carries the carbohydrate.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs whose vet has prescribed a hydrolysed diet
Owners who want to know how much of the bag the hydrolysed protein makes up
Little mouths, with a small kibble and a feeding guide that stops at 15kg
Every added mineral printed with a dose

Worth watching

Fish oil at 0.9% sits beside the chicken hydrolysate, so a strict one-protein trial has two animal sources to account for
No moisture declared, so the dry matter figures assume 8%

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs on a vet's advice. The guide runs from 30 grams a day at 1kg to 245 grams at 15kg, and the vet settles where your dog sits.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Derivatives of vegetable origin
Meat and animal derivatives
Oils and fats (fish oil)0.9% (fish oil)Fish means more than one animal source
Fruit, minerals, seeds
Chicken liver hydrolysate26%The declared protein source
Maize starchThe declared carbohydrate source; starch does most of the work at 52.1% of dry matter

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc each dosed on the pack, with a natural antioxidant.

Named ingredients

Derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives, oils and fats (fish oil 0.9%), fruit, minerals, seeds. Protein source: Chicken liver hydrolysate (26%). Carbohydrate source: Maize starch.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

353.4 kcal/100g

Protein

17.6%

Fat

14.4%

Fibre

6.5%

Ash

5.5%

Dry weight

Protein

19.1%

Fat

15.7%

Fibre

7.1%

Ash

Carbs

52.1%

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

48.7%

Carbs

35%

Veg

5.8%

Oils

7.4%

Other

3.1%

Pricing & size