The invention discloses a tobacco shred preparation process capable of improving the smoking comfort of cigarettes. The tobacco shred preparation process comprises the following
processing steps: carrying out primary loosening and
moisture regaining, leaf selecting and secondary loosening and
moisture regaining on tobacco leaves, premixing the leaves, carrying out screening, carrying out materialadding, carrying out leaf storage on the tobacco leaves after material adding, carrying out shredding, carrying out heating and humidifying on the tobacco shreds, carrying out
drying on the tobacco shreds, and carrying out premixing; carrying out storage on the premixed tobacco shreds, thus obtaining tobacco shred
alcohol and modules; carrying out the same steps, adding tobacco shred
alcohol and the module tobacco shreds into the premixed tobacco shreds, perfuming the tobacco shreds, and carrying out storage. After
softened water is replaced with activated water, the
mouthfeel of the cigarettes can be improved, and the
dryness and astringency feeling of the
oral cavity is reduced. The sensory comfort
score value of the cigarettes including the
oral cavity irritation, the
oral cavity aftertaste, the
throat irritation, the
nasal cavity miscellaneous qi and the
smoke feeling can be improved by 2.9%-17.3%. Due to secondary
moisture regaining, the impurities having influences on the
smoke are removed, the tobacco shred
alcohol and modules are adopted as the external mixing ingredients, the alcoholized tobacco shreds can effectively improve the inherent quality of the tobacco shreds, andthus the comfort during the smoking process of the cigarettes is improved.