Ethanol-Reduced Alcoholic Beverage Extracts for E-Cigarette Flavoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current e-cigarette flavorings with alcoholic themes, such as wine, beer, and spirits, often use artificial flavors and significant amounts of ethanol, resulting in poor flavor quality and an unnatural sensory experience for users.
Innovation Solution
An aerosolizable formulation comprising one or more aerosol-forming agents and a flavoring agent that is an extract obtained from an alcoholic beverage, with the extract containing less than about 5% v/v ethanol, is used to provide a natural and high-quality flavor experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If artificial flavors and significant amounts of ethanol are used in e-cigarette formulations, then the alcoholic flavor theme is achieved, but the flavor quality deteriorates and the sensory experience becomes unnatural
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes ethanol from alcoholic beverage flavors, retaining only the desired flavor compounds. This is achieved through extraction processes that separate the flavor-active components from the ethanol solvent, allowing the formulation to achieve alcoholic flavor themes without significant ethanol content, thereby resolving the contradiction between ethanol quantity and flavor quality
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the chemical composition parameters of the flavoring agent by using ethanol-reduced extracts instead of traditional ethanol-based artificial flavors. This parameter change maintains the sensory characteristics of alcoholic beverages while reducing ethanol content to below detectable or significant levels, thus improving flavor quality and naturalness without sacrificing the alcoholic theme
2Adaptability or versatility
If artificial flavors are used to achieve alcoholic themes, then the desired flavor theme is obtained, but consumer satisfaction deteriorates due to poor flavor quality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates authentic copies of alcoholic beverage flavors by using actual extracts from alcoholic beverages rather than artificial synthetics. These extracts capture the true sensory profile of wines, beers, spirits, and cocktails, providing accurate flavor themes that meet consumer expectations and improve satisfaction while maintaining the versatility of offering various alcoholic flavor themes
3Strength
If significant amounts of ethanol are used in flavor formulations, then the alcoholic character is enhanced, but the sensory experience becomes unnatural and consumer satisfaction is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the harmful aspect of high ethanol content (which creates unnatural sensory experience) into a benefit by using ethanol as an extraction solvent that is then removed. The ethanol serves its useful purpose of extracting flavor compounds from alcoholic beverages, and then is eliminated from the final formulation, leaving only the beneficial flavor characteristics without the harmful sensory effects of high ethanol
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AI summary
An aerosolizable formulation having one or more aerosol-forming agents and a flavoring agent being an extract obtained from an alcoholic beverage, and wherein the extract contains less than about 5% v/v ethanol. A process for forming an aerosolizable formulation, forming an aerosol from the aerosolizable formulation, a contained aerosolizable formulation, an electronic aerosol provision system and the use of an extract obtained from an alcoholic beverage as a flavoring agent in an electronic aerosol provision system, wherein the extract contains less than about 5% v/v ethanol.