Parental lines for breeding potato cultivars suitable for different purposes and resistant to potato cyst nematode are being developed in Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Research Division Młochów. An initial step to this programme was collecting of nineteen potato cultivars from Germany, Netherlands and Great Britain, highly resistant to different pathotypes of Globodera rostochiensis (Ro1-Ro5) and/or to G. pallida (Pa1-Pa3). Cooking quality of these cultivars was tested and compared to Polish potato cultivars. The following parameters of cooked tuber flesh were evaluated: taste, darkening and aroma. Cooking quality of particular cultivars, which expressed the complex resistance to potato cyst nematode is comparable to that of commonly grown Polish cultivars, susceptible or resistant to pathotype Ro1. It was concluded that there exist a possibility of breeding the cultivars joining good cooking quality with complex resistance to potato cyst nematodes.