Process for Producing a Reconstituted Rooibos Sheet Comprising Stabilized Nicotine

A process for producing a reconstituted rooibos sheet comprising the following steps:

• a) passing rooibos fibers through a papermaking machine so as to produce a base web,
• b) forming a solution comprising:
• a rooibos extract,
• an aerosol-generating agent, and
• nicotine and an organic acid, or a salt of nicotine;
• c) bringing the solution into contact with the base web to obtain a wet reconstituted rooibos sheet, and
• d) drying the wet reconstituted rooibos sheet to produce the reconstituted rooibos sheet,
• wherein the reconstituted rooibos sheet comprises:
• a fibrous support comprising the rooibos fibers,
• the aerosol-generating agent, and
• the rooibos extract,
• characterized in that
• it further comprises nicotine and an organic acid, or a salt of nicotine, and
• it has a pH from 4.9 to 7.0, in particular from 5.5 to 6.5.