Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Vegetable & Chicken Stew Review

Hill's Prescription Diet Canned Cat Food Review


Quick Analysis

Ingredients:

Nutrition:

Potential Allergens: seafood, corn and wheat gluten

Est. Calories: 78 cal/100g


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Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Vegetable & Chicken Stew is a veterinary cat food formula; it's ingredient and nutritional composition is highly specialized. In this case, comparing it to other general nutrition cat food products is not recommended as the products serve different purposes. The scores above are not an indication of the product's ability to address it's indicated purpose.

As always, please contact your veterinarian before feeding your cat a veterinary diet.


Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a cat food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Vegetable & Chicken Stew includes the following:

Quality Ingredients

  • pork liver
  • chicken

Questionable Ingredients

  • wheat gluten
  • corn starch
  • rice
  • guar gum

Potential Allergens

  • wheat gluten
  • corn starch
  • fish oil

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

Although not the first product listed (which is the most plentiful), Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Vegetable & Chicken Stew does contain with its top ingredients pork liver which are considered quality protein sources.

Additionally, Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Vegetable & Chicken Stew also contains as top ingredients wheat gluten. These types of ingredients are typically used as bulk-adding fillers and are not required in your cat's diet.

Please also be aware that this product contains guar gum, which is an additive that some experts claim may be a possible contributor to certain medical conditions in cats.

Allergen alert: This product contains fish oil, corn starch and wheat gluten which may be problematic for cats who suffer from seafood, corn or wheat gluten food allergies.



Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 2849 cat foods in our database, Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Vegetable & Chicken Stew has:

  • significantly less protein than average
  • significantly more carbohydrates than average
  • significantly less fat than average
  • significantly more fiber than average
In general, cats have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

Using the calculations provided by the AAFCO, Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Vegetable & Chicken Stew has approximately 78 calories per 100g (22 calories/ounce), which is an average amount of calories compared to the average of the other wet cat foods in the CatFoodDB.


All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on September 5, 2021.

The authoritative source for ingredient lists and nutritional analysis for any pet food is always the pet food manufacturer.


Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the cat food manufacturer:

Water, Pork Liver, Carrots, Wheat Gluten, Spinach, Chicken, Powdered Cellulose, Corn Starch, Rice, Flaxseed, Dried Tomato Pomace, Chicken Liver Flavor, Coconut Oil, Potassium Alginate, Calcium Chloride, Fish Oil, Choline Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Guar Gum, Natural Flavor, Calcium Lactate, Calcium Gluconate, Vitamins (vitamin E Supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source Of Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Taurine, Disodium Phosphate, Iodized Salt, Leucine, Potassium Citrate, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, L-carnitine, Minerals (zinc Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Calcium Iodate), Beta-carotene


Guaranteed Analysis

Nutritional information as published by the cat food manufacturer.*

Protein: (min)
8.2%
Fat: (min)
2.8%
Fiber: (max)
2.0%
Carbs: (est)
7.3%
Ash: (est)
1.4%
Moisture: (max)
78.3%

Dry Matter Analysis

The manufacturer's published guaranteed analysis values normalized for moisture content.

Protein: (min)
38%
Fat: (min)
13%
Fiber: (max)
9%
Carbs: (est)
34%
Ash: (est)
6%
Calories: (est)
78/100g

*Note that nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each cat food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber and moisture in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Optionally, manufacturers may also publish a product's ash content. When they are not published an average of 3% ash for wet food, and 6% ash for dry food, will be used. Because exact nutritional percentages are not available and all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values. Any other manufacturer published values in a product's Guaranteed Analysis is done at the manufacture's discretion, and is not used in any of the calculations done by CatFoodDB.

Although a high score may be indicative of a higher-quality product it is not a guarantee. Similarly, a low score may or may not indicate an inferior product. The best food for your cat is the one that meets their individual needs.


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