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US 12,185,749 B2Granted
Tobacco blend
AssigneeNicoventures Trading Limited
InventorJoseph Sutton
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Abstract
Described here in a composition for use in a device for generating an inhalable medium, the composition comprising (i) 0-50% by weight of air-cured and/or fire-cured tobacco (ii) 40-80% by weight of flue-cured and/or sun-cured tobacco that has not been subjected to any further treatment which affects the flavor properties of tobacco, and (iii) 0-40% by weight of flue-cured and/or sun-cured tobacco that has been further treated to enhance the flavor properties of tobacco.
Claims7
A composition for use in a device for generating an inhalable medium, the composition comprising:
- 0-50% by weight of a first tobacco component that has been air-cured, fire-cured, or both air-cured and fire-cured, said first tobacco component having not been subjected to any flavor treatment beyond air-curing and/or fire-curing;
- 40-80% by weight of a second tobacco component that has been flue-cured, sun-cured, or both flue-cured and sun-cured, said second tobacco component having not been subjected to any flavor treatment beyond flue-curing and/or sun-curing;
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- 10-40% by weight of a third tobacco component that has been flue-cured, sun-cured, or both flue-cured and sun-cured, wherein only the third tobacco component has been subjected to a flavor enhancing Maillard reaction following the flue-curing and/or sun-curing, the Maillard reaction enhancing the flavor properties of the third tobacco component.
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