JPS6384473A - Smoking composition - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (Industrial application field) SMOKING COMPOSITIONS FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to smoking compositions.

Specifically, the present invention relates to a smoking composition that contains pineapple fruit fiber as an essential ingredient and contains substantially no nicotine, or a smoking composition that has a low nicotine content by mixing it with tobacco leaves.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION (Prior Art) There is an increasing debate about the health effects of tobacco. On the other hand, the habit of smoking is difficult to quit, so in order to reduce the harm caused by smoking, cigarettes with enhanced filter functions and cigarettes that allow air to flow in when smoking are being manufactured and sold. ing. Furthermore, several products in the form of cigarettes made of materials other than tobacco have been proposed as smoking articles that do not contain any nicotine.

The latter include, for example, the leaves of tea, cedar, and pine trees, the hair of corn, the peel of tangerines, and the leaves of Japanese knotweed, but there is still nothing attractive enough to convert a smoker from his long-standing attachment to cigarettes. Not served.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In view of the current situation, the inventors have developed a product that does not contain nicotine, has a pleasant flavor and aroma, and whose raw materials are stably available at low cost. As a result of our earnest efforts to develop a smoking composition that can be processed into cigarettes, we have discovered that dried pineapple juice lees is suitable for this purpose.

Pineapple is a perennial plant of the bromeliad family that grows in the tropics, and each plant produces one fruit.

It is cultivated on a large scale in Southeast Asian countries such as Taiwan and the Philippines, Hawaii, and the Caribbean coast, where it is shipped as a native product, and its pulp is canned and the fruit juice is extracted. The squeezed lees produced as a by-product during fruit juice production is mainly fruit fiber, and the amount of this by-product is enormous. Currently, some of these are used for feed, and most of them are discarded.

The inventor analyzed washed and dried pineapple juice lees and found that the content ratio of other components, except for the absence of nicotine, was close to that of dried tobacco leaves, and attempted processing. However, by slightly modifying and applying conventional cigarette manufacturing methods such as rolling, cutting, and rolling, cigarettes can be made into cigarettes. They have also discovered that they have favorable combustion performance, and have arrived at the present invention.

(Structure of the Invention) The present invention relates to a smoking composition containing pineapple fruit fiber as an essential component. Specifically, the present invention relates to a smoking composition using a chopped product obtained by processing fruit juice lees.

The first example compares an example of the analytical value of pineapple juice squeezed lees with water of about twice its wet weight, squeezed to remove peel fragments, etc., and dried with the analytical value of a dried tobacco leaf product.
Shown in the table.

Table 1 Moisture 10.7 10~
2゜crude protein 4.13~5 crude fat 1,1 1~3
Crude fiber 16.4 8-1
0 coarse ash content 3.0 11
~14 Soluble nitrogen-free content 65.7 50
~60 Soluble nitrogen content 0.0 2~
3 total 100.0 (Total sugar content 24.0 20-25) Pineapple juice lees contains more sugar and soluble nitrogen-free content than the above analysis value, and has a sticky feel, but the wet weight When washed with about twice the amount of water and dried, it is not sticky and has the above analytical values.

The solid content of the juice squeezed lees is mainly cellulose in the form of fibers, and has long fiber length and thin fiber diameter. However, its low strength makes it unsuitable for ordinary fiber applications.

The fibers from pineapple leaves are processed into textiles, etc., albeit in small quantities, using local traditional techniques in Southeast Asia.

Washed and dried pineapple pulp has an equilibrium moisture content of about 10% if thoroughly dried, but if a small amount of moisture is added,
A material with a moisture content of about 30% can be spread and made into a sheet. It is thought that the relatively long fiber length and the presence of a considerable amount of pectin in the strained lees, which act as a binder during spreading, are useful for spreading.

The pineapple pulp is yellowish-white, but it turns brown when exposed to air, and the dried, spread, and shredded pieces are similar in appearance to the chopped pieces of tobacco leaves. Chopped products made from pineapple lees have good combustibility, no smoke, and little stinging. A suitable flavor and humectant solution is added to this by spraying, and the alcohol contained in the spray is evaporated, resulting in a final moisture content of 8-15%.
, preferably around 11%, can be processed into cigarettes in the same process as tobacco leaves, has combustibility similar to tobacco leaves, and can enjoy nicotine-free smoking. Furthermore, the above-mentioned chopped product has good blendability with tobacco leaves and can be used for manufacturing low nicotine cigarettes.

(Effects of the Invention) Pineapple squeezed lees is a by-product and discarded constantly throughout the year in large quantities at pineapple juice production factories, and is easily available. When using this product, there is an advantage that storage equipment for the period until the next year's acquisition time is not required, unlike when seasonal agricultural products are used as raw materials.

Sufficiently dried pineapple juice lees has an equilibrium moisture content of around 10% and can be transported and stored, and raw materials can be imported and processed in Japan.

As mentioned above, dried, spread, finely chopped, numbered, and toned lees have a tobacco-like appearance and can be used as nicotine-free smoking articles when not mixed with tobacco leaves. . Since the original smoke has no peculiar or irritating taste or aroma, it can be numbered with various flavors to obtain mild smoking. Furthermore, by mixing tobacco leaves, a smoking article with a low nicotine content can be obtained.

In the Examples described below, cigarette flavors were used as they were, so the smoking composition of the present invention had a somewhat unreliable taste compared to commercially available cigarettes. However, by improving the flavor formulation, , it is possible to obtain a richer flavored smoke.

Examples of the present invention will be described below.

(Example) Pineapple fruit juice squeezed lees were immersed in -dan water, floating scale fragments, etc. were removed, water was removed by centrifugation, and then air-dried at room temperature for one day to a moisture content of about 30%. (If it is too dry, spray with water to adjust the moisture content to 25-35%.) Next, pass it between two steel rolls until the thickness is about 0.
．． Stretch it out to about 3mm to make a sheet, cut it, and make it into a sheet with a width of 0.
It was an engraved piece with a diameter of 3 mm and a length of about 5 mm. This pineapple fruit fiber cut product was sprayed with a cigarette flarer and left to dry naturally for a few days. Using this numbered pineapple fruit fiber cut product, the following smoking article was manufactured.

■ Finished to the dimensions of No-Illite using only engraved items.

■ The engraved items are numbered and finished to the dimensions of No-Illite.

(2) Tobacco leaves obtained by decomposing commercially available Highlights were blended with the above-mentioned numbered quality product at a weight ratio of 50:50, and similarly finished to the size of Highlights.

As a comparison sample, commercially available No-Illite was used to measure the nicotine content of the inhaled gas during smoking, and the smoking taste was evaluated by five panelists. The results are shown in Table 2.

Incidentally, the nicotine content was measured by the following method.

Using a constant flow type smoking device, smoking was performed under the following conditions: inhalation time 2 seconds/time, smoking interval 58 seconds/day, smoking flow rate 17.5 me/second, and the main smoke flow was collected with a Cambridge filter CM113 to collect condensate. This condensate was steam-distilled to separate nicotine, which was quantified by the absorption intensity of ultraviolet light at 259 mμ, and was used as a component in the smoke that passed through the filter chip. In addition, the amount of nicotine captured by the filter tip was similarly quantified, and the sum of the amount and the above amount of nicotine was defined as the total amount of nicotine generated in the cigarette smoke.

Table 2

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A smoking composition containing pineapple fruit fiber as an essential ingredient. (2) Pineapple fruit fiber dries the juice lees,
The smoking composition according to claim 1, which is a carved product obtained by spreading and cutting. (3) The smoking composition according to claim 1 or 2, which is a mixture of the chopped pineapple fruit fiber product and the chopped tobacco leaf product.