Heated aroma-producing body, aroma cartridge, and manufacturing method and manufacturing device for heated aroma-producing body

An aroma-producing body to be heated loaded into an aroma cartridge, the aroma-producing body comprising:

• an aroma-producing substrate to be heated, the aroma-producing substrate producing smoke and aromas when heated in contact with a heating element;
• and
• a packaging material surrounding the aroma-producing substrate, wherein
• the aroma-producing substrate contains at least an aerosol former, non-tobacco plants and/or tobacco plants, and a binding agent,
• the aroma-producing substrate includes noodle-shaped bodies,
• the noodle-shaped bodies include aggregates in which part of the noodle-shaped bodies are aggregated and single pieces that are not aggregated,
• the aroma-producing body has a deformed gas flow path penetrating the aroma-producing body in a longitudinal direction of the aroma-producing body,
• the deformed gas flow path includes
• a first gas flow path between the aggregates, and
• a second gas flow path between the single pieces or the aggregates and the packaging material,
• the noodle-shaped bodies have anisotropy in a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the cross-sectional shape having a long axis direction and a short axis direction, and
• in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a ratio of the noodle-shaped bodies having the long axis direction along a periphery of the aroma-producing substrate to all of the noodle-shaped bodies is greater than a ratio of the noodle-shaped bodies having the long axis direction along a normal direction of the periphery of the aroma-producing substrate to all of the noodle-shaped bodies.