Abstract: For cream potatoes looking and tasting practically the same as home-made, a creamable dried potato product comprises a major proportion of dried potato flakes or granules processed in the usual manner as basic component and a minor proportion of potato granules as additive component, wherein both components are mixed dry and the additive component is prepared from potato pieces which are partly cooked, then dried and reduced to a particle size of between 0.25 mm and 2.5 mm, wherein the cooking rate of these potato pieces corresponds to the area defined by the definite integral 0 to TdT=100.degree. C. min. to 600.degree. C. min, when plotting the temperature in .degree.C., measured at the thermal centers of the potato pieces against the heating time in minutes.