Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet Hills Prescription Diet Metabolic Weight Management Cans 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.

Metabolic Weight Management is a canned chicken recipe. It is sold in Hill's Prescription Diet range for dogs whose weight is being brought down on a vet's plan.

WetAdult

A veterinary diet for dogs on a vet's weight plan, so it carries no score from us. The tin is a canned chicken recipe with fibre raised and fat held low. Each mouthful carries little energy, 80 kcal per 100g.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose weight is being brought down on a vet's plan
A reducing diet built the usual way, with fibre at 14.2% and fat at 12.1% of dry matter
Dogs that eat better from a can, with moisture declared at 76.1%

Worth watching

Category names throughout, with chicken at 3% the only species named
Large portions, around 880 grams a day for a 15 kg dog as a rough estimate

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size and fed on a vet's advice. The vet running the weight plan sets the portion.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesA category name. Chicken is drawn out at 3%, the one species named.
CerealsNo grain named.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Vegetables
Eggs and egg derivativesThe only other animal ingredient you can pick out.
Seeds
Oils and fatsNo source named.
Minerals

Zinc, iron, manganese, copper and iodine, each dosed on the label.

No digestible core or named blend broken out, so the sources of the fibre, starch and fat cannot be followed for an elimination plan.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 3%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables, eggs and egg derivatives, seeds, oils and fats, minerals.

Against the range

A canned chicken recipe from Hill's Prescription Diet range, written almost wholly in category terms. Fibre is up and fat is down, the way a reducing recipe is put together: crude fibre converts to 14.2% of dry matter and fat to 12.1%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

80.4 kcal/100g

Protein

6.7%

Fat

2.9%

Fibre

3.4%

Ash

1.5%

Moisture

76.1%

Dry weight

Protein

28%

Fat

12.1%

Fibre

14.2%

Ash

6.3%

Carbs

39.4%

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

43.7%

Added water

11.1%

Carbs

37.2%

Veg

Oils

0.9%

Other

Pricing & size