Method for producing a homogenized tobacco material, and homogenized tobacco material

An aerosol-generating article including a portion of a sheet of homogenized tobacco material comprising powder from a tobacco blend having known proportions of graded tobacco types, the sheet realized according to a method comprising:

• selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic, said first tobacco characteristic being reducing sugars and the first target value being comprised between about 8 percent and about 18 percent in dry weight basis of a total amount of tobacco present within the homogenized tobacco material;
• selecting a second target value of a second tobacco characteristic, wherein the second tobacco characteristic is one of total ammonia and total alkaloids;
• blending the graded tobacco types so as to form a tobacco blend, each graded tobacco type comprising a predetermined amount of the first and second tobacco characteristics, so that the first and second target values of said first and second tobacco characteristics are obtained in said blend within a predetermined tolerance range;
• grinding said tobacco blend into a blended tobacco powder;
• forming a slurry comprising the blended tobacco powder;
• forming a web of homogenous tobacco web from the slurry;
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• forming a sheet of homogenous tobacco material from the web.