Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Hills Prescription Diet Gastrointestinal Biome Stew 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 Stew is a chicken stew under Hill's Prescription Diet label. Hill's aims it at dogs whose digestion is being managed on veterinary instruction.

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A veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and fed on a vet's advice, so we put no score on it. Gastrointestinal Biome Stew is a chicken stew built around a declared prebiotic fibre blend. What follows is what the label declares and what the analysis works out at.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose digestion is being managed on veterinary instruction
Prebiotic fibre chosen with the gut flora in mind, declared at 3.2%
A dog that needs coaxing through a rough patch: pork liver helps palatability
More water with each meal, at 78.5% moisture

Worth watching

Pork as well as chicken, worth raising if your vet picked a protein deliberately
Much of the list in category terms, so the full makeup is not spelled out

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. The label starts at 99 grams a day for a 1kg dog and reaches 1153 grams at 50kg, but the amount is your vet's call.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesChicken 8%Chicken drawn out; the rest unnamed.
Derivatives of vegetable origin, cerealsCategory terms.
Vegetable protein extracts
VegetablesCarrots 0.8%
Oils and fats, minerals, fruit, seeds
Digestible core: chicken, pork liver, rice flour, rice starch, vegetable oilPork sits alongside the chicken. The rice carries the texture and the carbohydrate estimate.
ActivBiome+ Digestion blend: pecan shell, flaxseed, citrus pulp, beet pulp, cranberries3.2%Grouped by Hill's as prebiotic fibre for the gut flora.

Zinc, iron, manganese, copper and iodine each with a printed dose, plus potassium alginate at 4.8g, a seaweed gelling agent that sets the stew.

Pork liver is in the recipe as well as chicken, worth checking with your vet if the protein was chosen on purpose.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%), derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, vegetable protein extracts, vegetables (carrots 0.8%), oils and fats, minerals, fruit, seeds. Highly digestible ingredients: Chicken, pork liver, rice flour, rice starch, vegetable oil. ActivBiome+ Digestion prebiotic blend (3.2%): Ground pecan shell, flaxseed, dried citrus pulp, dried beet pulp, dried cranberries.

Against the range

A chicken stew from Hill's Prescription Diet, aimed at dogs whose digestion is being managed on veterinary instruction. The list runs mostly in category terms, then names a digestible core and a five-part prebiotic blend at 3.2%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

81.2 kcal/100g

Protein

5.4%

Fat

3.2%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

1.4%

Moisture

78.5%

Dry weight

Protein

25.1%

Fat

14.9%

Fibre

7.4%

Ash

6.5%

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

36.1%

Added water

13.5%

Carbs

41.7%

Veg

3.3%

Oils

4.6%

Other

0.9%