Hill’s Prescription Diet h/d Heart Care Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Hill’s Prescription Diet h/d Heart Care Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food are Whole Grain Corn, Pork Fat, Soy Protein Isolate, Chicken By-Product Meal, and Natural Chicken Liver Flavor.
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Hill’s Prescription Diet h/d Heart Care Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food Ingredients
Whole Grain Corn contains bran, cereal germ, and endosperm as a whole instead of just the endosperm. Corn is a fibrous grain and it provides easily digestible carbohydrates that makes it a key energy source. Also corn has linoleic acid, an essential omega-6 fatty acid to maintain healthy skin, coat and immune system.
Chicken By-Product Meal is rendered mix of less desirable parts (eg. gizzards, giblets, feet), internal organs (eg. lungs, spleen, liver, heart, kidneys) and bones of a chicken.
Chicken by-products are protein rich like chicken and also it's a natural source of Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine. However, it's an already processed material in dog food manufacturing and makes the food ultra-processed.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Hill’s Prescription Diet h/d Heart Care Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food has 18.5% protein, 20.6% fat, 1.9% fiber, and % moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 54%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Hill’s Prescription Diet h/d Heart Care Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food as 54%. Basically, more than half of the food you feed to {your dog} is starch.
Average starch ratio of dry dog foods on inthekibble.com is 38.67% - and that means this Prescription Diet kibble has more starch ratio than the average.
