Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Hills Prescription Diet Gastrointestinal Biome 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.

Gastrointestinal Biome is a chicken-based kibble in Hill's Prescription Diet range, presented by the maker as a fibre-led diet for dogs whose digestive upsets are being handled by a vet.

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A chicken-based kibble from Hill's Prescription Diet range, presented by the maker as a fibre-led diet for dogs whose digestive upsets are being handled by a vet. Veterinary diets carry no score from us. Below is what the label declares.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose digestive upsets are being managed on a vet's advice
A declared prebiotic blend at 14.6%: ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, citrus pulp and cranberries
Crude fibre at 7.0% as declared, 7.7% of dry matter
Minerals dosed in print, zinc at 148mg among them

Worth watching

Three animal sources: chicken, turkey and fish oil
Maize twice, as the grain and as maize gluten meal, a plant protein
Animal fat with no species named

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, fed by the weight of the dog. If your dog is steering clear of chicken, turkey, fish or maize, take that detail into the consultation.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Cereals, meat and animal derivatives, and the other category entrieschicken 9%The declared list, in category terms.
Chicken and turkey mealTwo birds once the second list is read.
Broken rice, maize
Maize gluten mealPlant protein doing some of the meat's lifting.
Animal fat, vegetable oil, fish oilNo animal or plant named for the first two.
Ground pecan shell, dried beet pulpblend 14.6%The fibre core of the ActivBiome+ blend.
Flaxseed
Dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, each dosed per kilo, with a natural antioxidant.

The ActivBiome+ blend makes up 14.6% of the bag; fibre on that scale is why the food exists in this form.

Named ingredients

Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 9%), derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, fruit, seeds, minerals, vegetables. Highly digestible ingredients: Chicken and turkey meal, broken rice, maize, maize gluten meal, animal fat, vegetable oil, fish oil. ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend (14.6%): Ground pecan shell, dried beet pulp, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried cranberries.

Against the range

A prescription diet, and we print no score for it. The label runs in categories first, cereals then meat and animal derivatives with chicken at 9%. It then names its highly digestible ingredients, from chicken and turkey meal to fish oil. The ActivBiome+ prebiotic blend makes up 14.6% of the bag.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

343 kcal/100g

Protein

21.3%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

Ash

5.9%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

14.5%

Fibre

7.7%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

47.9%

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

22.4%

Carbs

54%

Veg

2.3%

Oils

19.3%

Other

2.1%

Pricing & size