An animal chew product and processes for making animal chew products isprovided. Aprocess includes baking at least one sweet potato to reach a conversiontemperature for a timesufficient to generally uniformly convert starch in the at least one sweetpotato to sugar slicing thebaked at least one sweet potato into segments of desired shape and thicknessand applying heat at adrying temperature that is below the burning point of the sugar for a timesufficient to dry thesegments to a threshold moisture level.
