Tobacco water leaching method for lowering its tar and toxicity

Abstract

A tar-reducing and detoxicating technology for tobacco leaf features that such steps are added between flue-curing and fermenting steps as immersing tobacco leaves in water for 0.5-3 hr, drip-drying and baking at 40-50 deg.C until its water content is lower than 10%. Its advantages are high effect to remove 70% of tar, amine and alkali, and no influence to smell of tobacco.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to a process for detarring tobacco, in particular to a process for detoxifying tar by soaking and dissolving tobacco in water. Background technique [0002] Smoking and health are concerned all over the world. Tobacco technology has initially revealed that the harmful components in cigarette tar are one of the main substances that endanger the health of smokers. Reducing the release of harmful components in cigarette smoke and improving the safety of cigarette smoking is an urgent problem in the current cigarette industry. The general trend of the world cigarette industry. At present, some large foreign cigarette manufacturers basically produce low-tar mixed cigarettes, which basically add spices after reducing the tar content to meet the physiological needs of consumers such as mouthfeel. The cigarettes currently produced and sold in my country are basically flue-cured cigarettes with high tar content. ...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of detoxification process of tobacco tar that can not only retain the original necessary aroma components, but also reduce the harmful components or harmful effects in tobacco tar, and is very simple to operate, to solve the problem of Many deficiencies in existing tobacco tar reduction methods