JPS6131074A - Smoking composition - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a smoking composition that is a so-called tobacco substitute used in place of a part of shredded tobacco, and relates to a smoking material that has improved flavor and physical properties. This is what we provide.

As social interest in smoking and health issues has increased in recent years,
Smokers have come to prefer lighter-tasting tobacco products. Furthermore, not only smokers but also non-smokers tend to dislike cigarette smoke.

The smoke produced by cigarette combustion consists of mainstream smoke that is inhaled by the smoker and sidestream smoke that emanates from the cigarette.

Therefore, in order to create a cigarette that has a light taste and has less impact on non-smokers.

It is necessary to reduce smoke components in both mainstream smoke and sidestream smoke.

[Prior art]

Various proposals have been made to reduce mainstream and sidestream tobacco smoke, one of which is tobacco substitutes. For example, inorganic fillers such as dolomite, diatomaceous earth, and carbon,
Binders such as carboxymethylcellulose, colorants, humectants, fragrances.

There are smoking compositions (Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication Nos. 47-3,743 and 1982-91,299) which are formed into a sheet by suitably blending these ingredients and are formed mainly from inorganic components.

However, it has the disadvantage of poor water resistance and, if added in large quantities to shredded tobacco, it will give off a strange taste and odor.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The smoking composition is subjected to treatments such as shredding, humidification, and flavor addition in the same process as the normal tobacco manufacturing process, and becomes a product cigarette by substituting a portion of shredded tobacco. Therefore, it is necessary to have the strength necessary to maintain the shape of the chopped pieces during cutting and to reduce the amount of piles of scraps, and the water resistance that maintains the shape and does not dissolve even during processing such as adding water. Ru. In order to impart water resistance, a water-resistant binder such as pectin may be used, but the use of too many binders has the problem of deteriorating the flavor and aroma of the smoking composition.

The object of the present invention is to improve the water resistance of smoking compositions mainly containing inorganic components, and also to improve the aroma and taste of smoking compositions.

[Means for solving problems]

The present inventors have discovered that a combination of citrus peel and an auxiliary agent is effective in improving the physical properties of smoking compositions mainly containing inorganic components, and have accomplished the present invention.

That is, 60-80% by weight of inorganic filler, 8-2% of binder.
0% by weight, citrus peel 10-30% by weight, auxiliary agent 0.5-3
By mixing 1% by weight with water and drying, a smoking composition with improved physical properties and aroma and taste can be obtained.

Examples of the citrus peel, inorganic filler, binder, and auxiliary agent that can be used in the present invention include the substances listed below.

The variety of citrus peel, which is one of the raw materials for smoking, is not particularly limited, and includes citrus fruits such as sweet orange, mandarin orange, tangorutanze cI, i6, grapefruit, and lemon, as well as summer mandarin, yashio, lime, You can use the peel of zakka fruits such as sour orange, bergamot, and citron. The pericarp can be divided into flabedo, albedo, sac, and sand sac parts, and one or more of these parts can be selected and used. Alternatively, lime may be added to the residue obtained by squeezing the juice using an in-line juicer at a citrus juice manufacturing factory, and then re-squeezing to obtain morass. It is preferable to crush the powder and use it as a powder that can pass through 100 meshes.

As the inorganic filler, which is one of the other smoking materials, inorganic compounds or natural minerals can be used, but inorganic fillers that do not produce harmful substances during tobacco combustion are preferred, and in some cases, they may be pre-caulked and heat-treated at several hundred degrees. You can use it later. Specifically, oxides selected from metal groups such as calcium, magnesium, aluminum, iron, and titanium;
Inorganic compounds such as hydroxides and carbonates, and natural minerals such as limestone, calcite, marble, cryolite, pearlite, obsidian, diatomaceous earth, and silica sand can be used.These inorganic compounds or natural minerals can be used. The ore is preferably crushed to 100%
It is preferable to use the powder as a one-pass powder.

As another binder for smoking raw materials, cellulose derivatives such as carboxymethyl cellulose and methyl cellulose, and gums such as roasted bean gum and gum arabic can be used.

Examples of the auxiliary agent include one or more mineral acids or organic acids selected from phosphoric acid, citric acid, malic acid, hexametaphosphoric acid, lactic acid, etc., and sodium phosphate consisting of these and sodium, potassium, ammonium, etc. In addition to salts such as , sodium hexametaphosphate, and potassium phosphate, aqueous ammonia can be used.

In addition to the above, colorants, humectants, fragrances, etc. may be used as necessary. Examples of coloring agents include caramel and pigments; humectants include polyhydric alcohols such as glycerin and propylene glycol; or sugar alcohols such as sorbitol and maltitol; examples of fragrances include M-class and fruit extracts.

When adding a moisturizer, this blending ratio is 3 to 10 times
It is about %. As for the blending ratio of citrus peel and inorganic filler, as the blending ratio of citrus peel increases, the proportion of combustibles increases and the reduction rate of tar in smoke becomes worse. It is desirable that the blending ratio of the inorganic filler is about 70 ftfi%.

Next, the manufacturing method will be described.

First, add 3 to 6 times the total amount of smoking ingredients to a container with water.
Add auxiliary agents, moisturizers, fragrances, etc. if necessary, and stir. Next, a smoking raw material consisting of citrus peel, an inorganic filler, and a binder blended in a predetermined ratio is then added. Next, this is stirred and mixed for a certain period of time to form a slurry.

The time required for mixing to form this slurry is sufficient time until the binder is dissolved, which usually takes 10 to 60 minutes, but if a high-speed homogenizer is used, 15 minutes is sufficient to create a slurry. can form objects.

This mixing not only dissolves the binder, but also dissolves water-soluble substances in the citrus peel, resulting in a slurry that is homogeneous and highly viscous.

A method of drying a slurry-like material can be carried out by a known technique. For example, using 2 to 3 rolls, the slurry-like material is placed on one of the rolls, and the slurry-like material is placed on the other roll. After scraping off a predetermined thickness K with a roll, transfer the slurry onto an endless belt using a doctor knife or a third roll, and roll it to a thickness of 100 to 15 mm using a drying machine.
After drying with hot air at 0℃ until it is almost completely dry, adjust the humidity.

A smoking sheet composition can be manufactured using a so-called slurry-type sheet forming machine which obtains a sheet material by peeling it off from an endless belt using a doctor knife.

[Example 1] Dry powder round inorganic filler &L, 1-15g--1 citrus fruit juice residue of Satsuma orange juice as citrus peel. -, ito (each 1
00 Me, Si & Pass powder), carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt as a binder, trisodium phosphate and aqueous ammonia as auxiliaries, and glycerin as a humectant were used at the raw material blending ratio (weight 111) shown in Table 1. . In addition,
In order to compare with the product of the present invention, +! J! Assuming that the composition for A is a conventional product, the raw material blending ratio (weight ff
Used in 1).

The raw materials from Nikai were mixed for 13 minutes in a homogenizer to form a slurry. A slurry-like product was formed using the conventional product in the same manner as the product of the present invention.

The slurry-like material formed above (unheated) was
shape equipment, EnFless belt, tunnel type hot air drying equipment,
Using a slurry one-type sheet forming machine equipped with a rack device peeling device, etc., it was formed into a sheet shape and dried (140 ° C.
), humidity control, and peeling to obtain smoking sheet compositions of the present invention and a conventional product.

The smoking composition produced by the method described above was placed in a conditioning chamber (2
After being stored at 2°C, 60% R, H, for -1 week and conditioned,
Su15! ! Breaking stress and swelling properties were measured.

It was determined as a representative of the strength of the sheet. Tensile breaking stress (t/
j) is the value obtained by dividing the tensile strength at break (ct7wx) by the thickness - I). Tensile breaking strength is.

Fixing 10 fins each at both ends in the direction 706 of a rectangular sheet with a sheet width of 101111 and a sheet length of 701111,
When this sheet piece is pulled at a constant speed of 10M/min,
The force (F) required to break the sheet was measured using a load sensor. On the other hand, the thickness is measured pressure 550 soil 5
It was determined by measuring with a dial gauge at 0 f/d. This tensile stress at break is required to be X,5t/- or more (repeated measurement 10 times) in order to apply to the same process as a normal cigarette manufacturing process.

Swellability was calculated by measuring the diameter X- after immersing a circular sheet with a diameter of 25M in a water tank at a temperature of 25° C. for 5 minutes, and using the following formula. The smaller the value, the less it swells, that is, the less it dissolves in water, and therefore the more water resistant it is.

Since the swelling property is applicable to the same process as the normal cigarette manufacturing process, K needs to be within 20% (repeated measurement 5 times).

Il wettability (%) = 100・(X-1)/25-4・(
X-25) The average values of the measurement results of physical properties are shown in Table-2.

Table-2 From Table-1 and Table-2, the product of the present invention has the following characteristics compared to the conventional product:
Although the content of carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt, which is a binder, is less than the amount required, the physical properties have been improved, especially the swelling property has been improved by about 3 times, making it possible to use the same process as the cigarette manufacturing process. This shows that it has adaptable physical properties.

[Example 2] The smoking composition of the present invention was cut with a cutting width o of 5M using a tobacco cutting machine.
K11l! It was mixed with 40% of the engraved product for "Caster" (product name 1 Japan Monopoly Corporation!) and rolled up with a winding machine to a roll length of 70M, 1 roll 25m + 111. At this time, 40% of the conventional product Mixed rolls and "casters"
The 100% high grade material on the circumference was also rolled up in the same way. Each volume is kept in a harmonic room (22℃).

60% R, H,) After storage and harmonization for K-weeks, 1
Real winding weight 830±40mf, winding air resistance 55
Each 1G sample of ±1OsIllH1O was selected and smoke components were measured.

The smoke components are burned under standard smoking conditions using a quantitative automatic throat smoker in a honeycomb chamber that can collect sidestream smoke, and the coarse tar is collected in a Cambridge filter. For tar and nicotine (q/bottle), dissolve this Kamburi and Sifilter in a serum bottle containing isopropanol, and use ethanol for tar and normal hechusabkan for nicotine as internal standards. It was measured by gas chromatography.

The measurement results of smoke components are shown in Table 3.

From Table 3, it can be seen that the amount of nicotine and tar in the roll containing the product of the present invention is almost the same as that of the conventional product.

[Example 3] 9 Samples for taste evaluation: Smoking sheet compositions of the present invention and a conventional product were shredded to a grain size of 0.8111 using a tobacco shredding machine in the same way as for smoke component measurement. Then, 40% of the "Caster" peripheral material was substituted and mixed in, and rolled up with a winding machine to a winding length of 70 mm and a winding circumference of 25 mm. Also at this time,
As a control, I also rolled up the "Caster" 100% high-grade material around the circumference in the same way. These windings have a winding length of 60w.
IIK was cut, a filter for "caster" was attached, and the product was placed in a conditioning room (22° C., 60% R, H,) and kept under nitrogen for more than a day and night.

The smoking taste was evaluated using a two-point comparison method using a sensory test conducted by a specially trained panel of 20 experts. Table 4 shows the results and comments on taste.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Inorganic filler 60-80% by weight, binder 8-20% by weight,
A smoking composition obtained by mixing 10 to 30% by weight of citrus peel and 0.5 to 3% by weight of an auxiliary agent with water and then drying the mixture.