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Hill’s Prescription Diet Canine i/d Digestive Care Stew - Chicken review

One of the weakest wet foods we have rated. Just 10% declared meat content, and the label keeps too much vague. Feeding it costs about £8.86 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 29/100 Avoid
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Top 88%scores higher than 12% of rated foodsacross all 3080 foods we've scored
Avoidscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£8.86per day for a 15 kg dogcheaper than 3% of wet foods
10%declared meat content
United Statesbrand origin

Where the points went

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

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 62/100 across 16 ingredients (declared percentages used for 2, position estimates for the rest).
24.8 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (rice starch, cellulose) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 11% of the recipe (+0.6); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
4.6 / 15
Additives
Added sugars/sweeteners (-4); declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being various sugars (-6).
0 / 10
Red flags
Various sugars at position 5 (-16).
-16 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 10%.
5 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 50% dry matter (high); fat 15.3% DM in the healthy band; fibre 2.1% DM (+2); ash 7.4% DM - sensible mineral load (+2).
4.8 / 10
Processing
Retorted wet food.
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 7, 2026 · full methodology public
29 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 29 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 24.8 of a possible 40. On top of that, 16 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 10% 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 £8.86 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.

Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (14,134 IU), vitamin D3 (285 IU), iron (22mg), iodine (0.8mg), copper (3.3mg), manganese (2.4mg), zinc (28mg). Technological additives: Potassium alginate (5g).

Feeding & cost

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

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
3.7 kg--
4.2 kg--
7.5 kg--
8.5 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 15 kg adult dog needs about 965 g a day = £8.86 / day, £269.34 / 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, 75 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £9.18 / 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

25.3 % DM
Directory average: 42.2

Fat

15.3 % DM
Directory average: 27.8

Est. carbs

50.1 % DM
Directory average: 18.4

Fibre

2.1 % DM
Directory average: 4.1

Ash

7.4 % DM
Directory average: 10.8

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

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