Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Hills Prescription Diet Metabolic Weight Management 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 lamb kibble in Hill's Prescription Diet range is called Metabolic Weight Management, and the maker offers it for dogs whose weight loss is being supervised by a vet.

DryAdult

Hill's lamb kibble for dogs whose weight loss is being supervised by a vet, so it carries no score from us. Fibre does the work here, at 13.0% as fed, with fewer calories in every mouthful.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a weight loss plan their vet is running
High fibre: 14.3% of dry matter
Restrained energy at 311 kcal per 100g
Trace minerals dosed one by one on the panel

Worth watching

Only lamb is named, so every other input sits behind a category heading
No palatant or blend named, for a dog eating less than it would like

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A reducing diet is weighed against a target weight, so the portion comes from the vet who recommended it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

What's in it

Cerealsrice 4%Rice is the only grain named.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Meat and animal derivativeslamb 4%Lamb is the one species printed.
Vegetable protein extracts
Vegetables
Oils and fats, seeds
Minerals

Manganese, zinc, iron, copper, iodine and selenium each dosed, with a natural antioxidant named at the end.

Nothing is hydrolysed and only lamb is named, so the rest of the animal content is unknown.

Named ingredients

Cereals (rice 4%), derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives (lamb 4%), vegetable protein extracts, vegetables, oils and fats, seeds, minerals.

Against the range

A single category-listed kibble: cereals lead with rice at 4%, and meat and animal derivatives come third with lamb at 4%. Lamb is the only species printed anywhere on the label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

311 kcal/100g

Protein

25.4%

Fat

11.2%

Fibre

13%

Ash

5.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.9%

Fat

12.3%

Fibre

14.3%

Ash

6.2%

Carbs

39.3%

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

16.4%

Carbs

74.8%

Veg

4.2%

Oils

2.3%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size