An animal snack product and processes for making animal snack products areprovided. A process includes baking at least one sweet potato to reach aconversiontemperature for a time sufficient to convert starch generally uniformlythroughout the at leastone sweet potato to sugar； forming a thickened mash from the at least onesweet potato；forming segments of desired shape and thickness from the thickened mash； andapplying heatat a drying temperature that is below the burning point of the sugar for atime sufficient to drythe segments to a threshold moisture level.
