Use of pectin or other anionic polymers in the stabilization and controlled release of nicotine in oral sensorial tobacco products or nicotine containing non-tobacco oral sensorial products

A process for stabilizing nicotine and/or preventing nicotine oxidation in a nicotine containing oral sensorial product consisting essentially of:

• mixing about 1% to about 30% nicotine with about 70% to about 99% pectin, wherein the nicotine and the pectin form a complex whereby the nicotine is stabilized and/or prevented from oxidation;
• and,
• incorporating the complex of nicotine and pectin in an oral sensorial product that is a lit-end cigarette, an electrically heated cigarette, snus, dry snuff, moist snuff, a pouched product, or a wrapper, wherein said products do not comprise gum or tobacco.