These homemade sweet potato dog treats are simply made with only three ingredients: sweet potato, cinnamon, and olive oil! Your pup will love these sweet potato chews for dogs.
I love making homemade dog treats. Not only is it way more cost effective, but you can control the ingredients in them and ensure your pup has a healthy treat.
Have you ever read the list of ingredients in certain dog treats? It can get scary.
But these healthy sweet potato dog treats only have three ingredients.
Sweet potatoes, cinnamon, and olive oil. That’s it.
They do take a while to bake, since they bake at low temperatures to ensure that chewy consistency. However, once they’re in the oven, they’re pretty ‘set it and forget it.’
This means that the only real effort to make this homemade dog treat is slicing the sweet potatoes. This recipe is crazy easy, and your pup will go nuts for them.
Best of all? They’re so good for your dogs!
Benefits of Sweet Potato for Dogs
Sweet potatoes are rich in the antioxidant beta-carotene (responsible for its orange hue), which converts to vitamin A in our pet’s body.
Vitamin A is an essential vitamin for dogs, which helps promote the health of:
- a dog’s skin and coat
- a dog’s eyes
- a dog’s muscles and nerves
In addition, sweet potatoes are high in fiber, low in fat, and a rich source of essential nutrients such as calcium, potassium, iron, and vitamins C and B6.
The dietary fiber found in sweet potatoes help support a healthy digestive system in our pets.
But there are still some precautions when it comes to sweet potatoes for dogs. Carbohydrates should never be used as a dog’s main diet, and sweet potatoes should be consumed as a treat (in moderation) only.
Other Benefits of These Sweet Potato Dog Treats
In addition, these sweet potato dog chews also contain olive oil and cinnamon.
Olive oil for dogs can be beneficial to their skin, coat, immune system, cognitive health, and more, while cinnamon has anti-inflammatory, brain function, and anti-viral benefits for pups.
I hope that your pup enjoys these three ingredient sweet potato dog chews! Do you enjoy making homemade dog treats for your four-legged best friend? Let us know in the comments below!
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Sweet Potato Dog Treats
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Total Time: 3 hours 5 minutes
- Yield: 8-10 1x
Description
These homemade sweet potato dog treats are simply made with only three ingredients: sweet potato, cinnamon, and olive oil! Your pup will love these sweet potato chews for dogs.
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 250°F.
- Wash your sweet potato thoroughly and then slice it into ⅓” thick slices.
- Place the sweet potatoes on a greased or parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush each sweet potato slice on both sides with olive oil and a light sprinkle of cinnamon.
- Bake in the oven for 1 1/2 hours. Flip over and bake for another 1.5 hours or until tough and chewy all the way through.
- Let cool before giving to your pooch.
- Keep stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Notes
You can slice the sweet potato chews long ways or make them round like I did. If you have large dogs and need a bigger dog chew, go with long ways.
Don’t slice the potatoes too thin (thinner than 1/4″), or they will crisp in the oven and not turn out chewy.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 chew
- Calories: 45
- Sugar: 0.9g
- Sodium: 5mg
- Fat: 3.5g
- Saturated Fat: 0.5g
- Carbohydrates: 3.6g
- Fiber: 0.9g
- Protein: 0.3g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
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Hello! Thanks for such a wonderful recipe, I will definitely cook it for my dog, I think she will be delighted. A definite plus for me, this recipe is that it does not take long to cook and is very simple. I agree with the comments above, they look delicious enough for humans
Did anyone even make this recipe before commenting/giving 5 star reviews?????? I followed the recipe exactly but the oil was a very bad idea. At 3.5 hours, the sweet potatoes were still very soft and soggy. I might try the other Tasty recipe which does not include any other ingredient besides sweet potatoes. Might not take forever to dry or toughen up.
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Sorry these didn’t work for you, Tonya! Did you just lightly brush the potatoes with the oil?
Hello! Thank you so much for this recipe! Your recipe looks great and I will definitely gonna try this recipe – I have a question, do you know how many treats it will make? Thank you!
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Hi Jessica, it makes 8-10 treats! Hope you love it!
My dogs would love these treats. I’m normally not a huge fan of giving them a ton of treats because they are considered junk food. However, these sweet potato treats are filled with nutritious ingredients.
What a lovely treat. They look delicious enough for humans to eat too.
This is such a cute idea! I wonder if our dogs would enjoy this treat!
Well this is news to me. 🙂 I had no idea I could make sweet potato chips for my dog. I want to try them asap and hope he loves them!
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Such a great and easy recipe – love cinnamon. I don´t have a dog, but would love to try those out myself! lol
That looks healthy! I am sure any dogs would appreciate this homemade healthy snack!
Oh my goodness, what a great idea! My dog would totally become obsessed with this treats. I’ll have to make them for her!
I like that the ingredients are so pure. It would be okay for my granddaughter to snack a little while we make treats for her pup! They both love sweet potatoes.
That looks like a delicious and easy treat to make for our pet dogs. So this is what my friend meant when she said she feeds sweet potato snacks to her dog.
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I love preparing healthy treats for my dog. From the looks of it, your dog couldn’t wait to eat that tasty looking treat!
These look great! A nice, healthy treat for dogs.
I need to make these for my two pooches. They’ll love these. I love that they’re healthy for them. Love it!
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I would just make and eat these myself! I ADORE sweet potatoes!
These are great! The dogs get a tasty treat and we don’t feel bad that we gave them something awful. I love it!
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The homemade sweet potato dog treats seems so cute and yummy for dogs. I hope I can make one for my puppy.
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I love how easy this recipe is to make. I can’t wait to make this for my friends fur baby.
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I love my dogs but have never cooked for them. These treats seem like a great snack and so healthy and I never thought sweet potatoes had so many benefits.
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I love that it’s easy to prepare! I will be sharing this with my cousin as she has 5 dogs and will benefit greatly from this idea.
This is so sweet, I love the idea of making doggy treats from scratch. I bet it’s so much healthier for our furry loved ones. I am going to share with my doggy friend owners.
These are some absolutely wonderful sounding dog treats – nothing quite like making your own so you know exactly what your pup is eating.
I love the idea of homemade dog treats and being able to control the ingredients. I think Max would love these too.
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