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Hill’s Metabolic Stew with Chicken & Vegetables review

WetAdultWeight managementFussy eaters
Avoid

One of the weakest wet foods we have rated. Just 1% declared meat content, and the label keeps too much vague. Feeding it costs about £9.59 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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Top 97%scores higher than 3% of rated foodsacross all 3530 foods we've scored
Avoidscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£9.59per day for a 15 kg dogcheaper than 2% of wet foods
1%declared meat content

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 32/100 across 10 ingredients (declared percentages used for 2, position estimates for the rest). Named meat is only 8% of the recognised recipe, so the quality score is anchored down towards a plant-led food.
11 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (Meat and animal by-products, vegetable by-products, grains) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 3% of the recipe (+0.2); meat sources named (+2); variable-composition wording - fixed-formula points withheld.
2.2 / 15
Additives
Added sugars/sweeteners (-4); declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being various sugars (-6).
0 / 10
Red flags
Meat and animal by-products leads the label (-10); vegetable by-products at position 2 (-12); grains at position 4 (-16); oils and fats at position 8 (-6); various sugars at position 9 (-8); penalties capped at -25 (uncapped: -52).
-25 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 1%.
3.2 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 42% dry matter (moderate); fat 11.4% DM in the healthy band; fibre 11.4% DM (+0); ash 6.0% DM - sensible mineral load (+2).
4 / 10
Processing
Retorted wet food.
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.0 · scored July 28, 2026 · full methodology public
1 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 1 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 11 of a possible 40. On top of that, 25 points are deducted outright for red-flag ingredients - a penalty applied before anything else is counted, which is why the total lands where it does.

The label declares 1% meat, which is a low figure, and a declared low figure is still more honest than silence, and the ingredient list leans on vague groupings instead of naming what is actually in the bag.

At about £9.59 a day to feed a 15kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it does not.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Meat & fish

Meat and animal by-products 1% chickenchicken 1%oils and fats

Carbs & grains

vegetable by-productsgrainsvegetable protein extracts

Fruit & veg

vegetables 3.1%

Supplements & extras

seedsmineralsvarious sugarseggs and egg products
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
4.2 kg--
8.5 kg--
17 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 15 kg adult dog needs about 1034 g a day = £9.59 / day, £291.54 / month.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 15 kg dog works out near 725 kcal).
  2. Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 70 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £9.27 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

28.9 % DM
Directory average: 42.6

Fat

11.4 % DM
Directory average: 27.9

Est. carbs

42.3 % DM
Directory average: 18.3

Fibre

11.4 % DM
Directory average: 3.9

Ash

6 % DM
Directory average: 10.7

Carbohydrates are estimated: 100% minus protein, fat, fibre, ash and moisture.

Similar foods that score higher

Same type and life stage, better ODF Score, comparable price per day.

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