WO2022244928A1 - Tobacco preparation method for reducing nicotine and tar amount - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a tobacco preparation method in which pretreated Platycodon grandiflorus, ginseng and Epimedium koreanum are mixed with cut tobacco leaves to form a tobacco filler and a cigarette is prepared therefrom, and thus the amounts of nicotine and tar contained in tobacco smoke can be reduced while the taste of smoking can be improved and irritation can be alleviated. According to the present invention, unpleasant odor and residual taste can be minimized in tobacco having reduced nicotine and tar amounts, and thus the marketability and consumer preference of the tobacco having reduced nicotine and tar amounts are improved, and the dissemination thereof is expanded so that the health of a non-smoker that must be exposed to secondhand smoke, as well as the health of a smoker, can be improved.

Description

Manufacturing method of tobacco with reduced nicotine and tar

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing cigarettes, by mixing pretreated bellflower, ginseng, and yinyanggwa with cut tobacco leaves to form cutchops and manufacturing them into cigarettes, thereby reducing nicotine and tar contained in tobacco smoke, and at the same time It is designed to improve taste and relieve irritation.

The harmfulness of tobacco to the human body has been proven through various empirical studies, and it has been shown that not only direct smoking, but also indirect smoking caused by smoking by others has considerable harm.

Figure 1 shows the harmful components of tobacco, and as can be seen through the figure, it can be said that the majority of substances harmful to the human body are actually covered in the content of tobacco.

The harmfulness of these cigarettes is not limited to the respiratory tract, which is in primary contact with tobacco smoke particles during direct smoking and second-hand smoking, but causes various lesions, functional disorders, and reduced immunity in the cardiovascular and circulatory systems as well as the whole body, and various types of cancer and blood vessels. It acts as a direct cause of intractable diseases and various chronic diseases such as diseases and endocrine diseases, thereby degrading individual health and quality of life, and acting as a factor that deepens the health burden of society as a whole.

As such, cigarettes cause various and serious problems, and as awareness of this spreads throughout society, the number of smokers is gradually decreasing, but a dramatic decrease in smoking rate is far away due to the addictiveness and habituation peculiar to cigarettes. Smoking rates among women and adolescents, who were traditionally non-smokers, are increasing.

The various harmful effects of cigarettes, as well as the addictiveness and habituation of cigarettes, are due to the various harmful substances contained in the smoke generated by burning cigarettes. can

Nicotine is an alkaloid substance contained in solanaceous plants, including tobacco, and acts as a major factor that induces addiction or habituation while showing an awakening effect to mammals.

Tar, as in its dictionary meaning, is the total residue of solids and liquids remaining after subtracting the mass of nicotine and moisture from cigarette smoke, which also consists mostly of harmful components to the human body.

Therefore, since nicotine and tar, the active ingredients of cigarette smoke, cause toxicity and habituation as well as harmfulness of cigarettes, various efforts have been made to reduce the content of nicotine and tar in cigarettes. As an example, Patent No. 384405 can be cited.

Patent No. 384405 relates to a method for manufacturing cigarettes with reduced nicotine and tar, which was invented, applied, and registered by the same person as the applicant of the present invention. It is designed to suppress nicotine and tar.

Patent No. 384405 is a small amount of dry bellflower, ginseng, and eumyanggwa mixed with tobacco leaves in constituting the cut filler of cigarettes, and shows a significant effect in reducing nicotine and tar, as well as overall taste and aroma. Compared to regular cigarettes, it does not cause a profound sense of difference, but there is an unavoidable limit to a slight off-flavor as additives such as bellflowers are contained in addition to tobacco leaves.

The off-odor generated in the process of burning cigarettes of Patent No. 384405 can mainly include hearing, i.e. fresh smell, which is found to be mainly generated during the burning process of bellflower. A bitter taste, that is, a bitter taste, is also generated as it is sensed through taste.

Although such hearing and taste do not seriously damage the actual taste and flavor of the cigarette of Patent No. 384405 or fundamentally change the characteristic properties of cigarettes, it has been investigated that a significant number of smokers feel a slight off-odor, and some smokers who are sensitive to the patent It acted as a factor that damaged the marketability of cigarette No. 384405.

In particular, such listening and taste inevitably act as a factor in reducing the preference of smokers in choosing cigarettes, which results in suppressing the spread and spread of cigarettes with reduced nicotine and tar, and thus smokers as well as secondhand smoke. The health of non-smokers who are exposed to it also poses serious problems that threaten it.

The present invention was devised in view of the above-mentioned problems, and in a method for manufacturing tobacco that reduces nicotine and tar, dried bellflower seeds, dried ginseng, and dried ginseng boxes are pulverized, respectively, to obtain bellflower granules, ginseng A grinding step (S10) of forming granules and eumyanggwa granules, a purification step (S21) of immersing the bellflower granules in alcohol for 30 minutes and then taking out the solids to form purified bellflower granules, and a purified bellflower granule A roasting step (S22) of forming roasted bellflower granules by roasting after drying, and a mixing step (S30) of mixing and stirring the roasted bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and Eumyanggwak granules in the same weight ratio to form mixed granules (S30) And, a blending step (S40) of mixing 99.1% by weight of cut tobacco leaves and 0.9% by weight of mixed granules to form a blended cut filler, and a forming step (S50) of forming the blended cut filler into a cigarette Nicotine, characterized in that It is a method for producing tobacco that reduces tar and tar.

In addition, in the crushing step (S10), the dry bellflower, dry ginseng, and dry eumyangkwak are pulverized, respectively, to form bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwa granules of 100 mesh to 130 mesh. It is a method for producing cigarettes that reduce nicotine and tar.

Through the present invention, it is possible to minimize unpleasant off-flavors and unpleasant flavors in cigarettes containing reduced nicotine and tar, thereby improving the marketability and consumer preference of cigarettes containing reduced nicotine and tar, and expanding the distribution of smokers' health. It can, of course, improve the health of non-smokers who are forced to be exposed to secondhand smoke.

In particular, in manufacturing cigarettes with reduced nicotine and tar, it is possible to effectively suppress hearing and bitter taste, which were chronic problems of the prior art, with only a simple treatment process, thereby maintaining the characteristics of cigarettes as much as possible without excessive increase in manufacturing cost. quality can be improved.

1 is an explanatory diagram of harmful components of tobacco

2 is a flow chart of the present invention

Hereinafter, the detailed configuration and execution process of the present invention will be described.

First, in the present invention, the materials forming the cut sheath of the cigarette are general tobacco leaves, bellflower, ginseng, and eumyanggwa, and the properties and effects of bellflower, ginseng, and eumyanggwa, which are additives, are as follows.

Bellflower is a perennial root plant belonging to the genus bellflower and bellflower, and the root part mainly used as a medicine is also called Gilkyung.

Ginseng is also a perennial root plant, belonging to the family Araliaceae, and the root part is used as a medicine in a dried or steamed state as well as in a raw state.

Eumyangkwak is the aerial part of Samjiguchi, a perennial plant of the Buttercup Barberry family, and is used as a medicine in a dry state, ethanol extraction, or concentrated solution method.

According to Herbal Pharmacy (Co-author of Herbal Pharmacy Textbook Compilation Committee, Dongmyeongsa), bellflower promotes bronchial secretion, expresses expectorant action, has anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects, and ginseng has nutrient tonic, immune-enhancing and anti-inflammatory effects. It has effects such as inflammation, and Yin-Yanggwak has effects such as lowering blood pressure and enhancing immunity.

Tobacco leaves constituting the cut sheath of the cigarette manufactured through the present invention, conventional cigarette tobacco leaves are applied, and bellflower, ginseng, and eumyanggak, which are additives, are all applied based on the dried state.

In the present invention, Misam is applied as ginseng, and Misam is ginseng in a state of fine roots, and is known to have excellent actual pharmacological component content while being able to relatively reduce raw material procurement costs compared to main ginseng.

In particular, fine ginseng, which is in the state of fine roots, has a larger surface area than normal ginseng under the same weight condition, and therefore the content of the epidermis of fine ginseng far exceeds that of this ginseng. Thus, unnecessary aggregation in the process of forming the mixed granular material and compound cut sheath, which will be described later, can be suppressed, and supercharged combustion can be prevented during combustion in the state contained in the cut sheath in the cigarette.

Figure 2 is a flow chart showing the execution process of the present invention. As shown, the present invention crushes dry bellflower, dry ginseng, and dry eumyangkwak, respectively, to form bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwak. It starts with the crushing step (S10) of forming the upper body.

As described above, in the present invention, it is preferable to apply misam as ginseng, and in the grinding step (S10), the grinding of dry bellflower, dried fine ginseng, and dried eumyanggwak is a subsequent process. For smooth performance, it is preferable to carry out separately for each material, and it is preferable to set the particle diameters of bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyakkwak granules to pass through a sieve of 100 mesh to 130 mesh.

That is, in the crushing step (S10), the dry bellflower, the dry ginseng, and the dry eumyangkwak are separately pulverized to form bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwa granules of 100 mesh to 130 mesh. , If the particle size of bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwak granules is less than the 130 mesh passage diameter, the granules may leak to the outside of the cigarette during the manufacturing and distribution process of cigarettes, and if the particle diameter exceeds the 100 mesh passage diameter, it will be described later. Obstacles in uniform mixing with tobacco leaves constituting the cut filler may be caused, and defects in which specific granules may be biased may be caused.

Thereafter, a purification step (S21) is performed in which the bellflower granules are immersed in alcohol for 30 minutes and then the solids are taken out to form purified bellflower granules.

Here, the alcohol is fermented alcohol, and it is preferable to apply a purity of 95% or more, and it is preferable to process the bellflower granules in sufficient contact with the least equal amount of alcohol to the weight of the bellflower granules to be treated.

Through the purification step (S21), it is possible to elute and separate a significant level of impurities that form unpleasant odors, and elution and removal of some fat-soluble impurities are also possible.

When the purification step (S21) is completed, a roasting step (S22) of drying and roasting the purified bellflower granules to form roasted bellflower granules is performed.

Roasting is a process of roasting so as not to burn without adding water or oil. After putting the purified bellflower granules into a pan, continuously stirring while heating, or roasting coffee beans or nuts, purified bellflower After the granular material is put into the drum, the drum may be continuously rotated while heating.

In the roasting step (S22) of the present invention, the purified bellflower granules are heated at a temperature of 100 ° C to 120 ° C for 10 to 15 minutes while stirring continuously to form roasted bellflower granules. This roasting step (S22) can decompose or volatilize various toxic compounds contained in bellflower while minimizing the destruction of beneficial components of bellflower, and in particular, can effectively remove unpleasant flavors by volatilizing aldehyde compounds.

However, excessive heat treatment, that is, excessively high temperature or long-term roasting may cause material denaturation and destruction of active ingredients. it is desirable

When the roasting step (S22) is completed, a mixing step (S30) of forming a mixed granular material by mixing and stirring the roasted bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwak granules in the same weight ratio is performed.

Thereafter, a blending step (S40) of mixing 99.1% by weight of the cut tobacco leaf and 0.9% by weight of the mixed granular material to form a blended cut filler is performed, thereby completing the filler filled in the cut sheath of the cigarette, and then mixing the blended cut filler into the cigarette By performing the molding step (S50) of molding into, the cigarette to which the present invention is applied is completed.

Hereinafter, the configuration and effects of the present invention will be described through specific examples and various experiments using the same.

Example 1

2,000 mg of dry bellflower, 2,000 mg of dry ginseng, and 2,000 mg of dry yin-yangkwak were pulverized, respectively, to form bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwak granules having a diameter of 120 mesh, thereby performing a grinding step (S10). do.

Thereafter, 2,000 mg of the bellflower granules were immersed in 5,000 mg of 95% pure fermented alcohol for 30 minutes, and then the solids were taken out to form purified bellflower granules to perform a purification step (S21), and after drying the purified bellflower granules The roasting step (S22) is performed by roasting at 110 ° C. for 10 minutes to form roasted bellflower granules.

Subsequently, a mixing step (S30) was performed by mixing and stirring 1,000 mg of roasted bellflower granules, 1,000 mg of ginseng granules, and 1,000 mg of Yin Yanggwak granules to form 3,000 mg of mixed granules, and 99,100 mg of cut tobacco leaves and the above A blending step (S40) is performed by mixing 900 mg of the mixed granular material to form 100,000 mg of the blended cut filler.

Here, as the cut tobacco leaves, tobacco leaves collected from The One Blue, a commercially available cigarette, were used, and in the molding step (S50) of forming the mixed cut filler into a cigarette, the remaining filter attached cigarettes after separating and collecting tobacco leaves from the commercial cigarette It was carried out in a way to fill the compound cut filler inside the paper.

That is, tobacco leaves filled in commercial cigarettes are taken out, used as cut tobacco leaves to be mixed with mixed granules in the blending step (S40), and mixed cut filler is filled inside the commercial cigarettes from which tobacco leaves are removed, thereby making the cigarettes applied to the present invention is to complete

Since the weight of a typical commercially available cigarette is 1,000 mg, about 100 cigarettes can be produced with the 100,000 mg blended cut filler completed as described above. 70 cigarettes filled with cut filler were produced.

On the other hand, as a comparative example to be used in Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 to be described later, a cigarette applied to Patent No. 384405, which is a prior art for nicotine and tar-reduced cigarettes, was set as Comparative Example 1, and the commercial cigarette described above was set as Comparative Example 2. , The manufacturing process of Comparative Example 1 is as follows.

1,000 mg of dry bellflower root, 1,000 mg of dry ginseng, and 1,000 mg of dry ginyanggwak were mixed and pulverized to form 3,000 mg of comparative granular material having a particle size passing through 120 mesh, and then 99,100 cut tobacco leaves taken out from the commercially available tobacco. 70 cigarettes of Comparative Example 1 were prepared by mixing mg and 900 mg of the comparative granular material and filling commercially available cigarettes from which tobacco leaves were removed as in Example 1 described above.

Experiment 1. Sensory test for smokers

For Example 1, Comparative Example 1, and Comparative Example 2, which are commercially available cigarettes, quantitative evaluation was conducted on 20 sensory evaluation panels who were smokers.

Each panel smoked Example 1, Comparative Example 1, and Comparative Example 2, which were cigarettes, but smoked so that 1/2 of the filling portion of each filler, excluding the filter of the cigarette, was burned, and smoking by panel for Examples 1 to 2 The order was set randomly.

That is, Example 1, Comparative Example 1, and Comparative Example 2, each having the same appearance, were provided to each panel, but the smoking order of Examples 1 to 2 was arbitrarily determined by the panel without providing prior information. By doing so, the order of smoking was set at random, and smoking was performed once each for Example 1, Comparative Example 1, and Comparative Example 2, for a total of three smoking sessions, but in a state where no smoking was performed for more than 1 hour after each smoking. Smoking was then performed.

A 7-point scaling method was applied to the quantitative evaluation of this experiment, and the results are shown in Table 1 below.

Assessment of smokers

division	Rating (lowest 1 ~ highest 7) average of 20 panelists				note
	pepper	listening	worry	preference
Example 1	3.3	3.3	3.6	4.2	the present invention
Comparative Example 1	3.7	4.7	4.3	4.3	prior art
Comparative Example 2	5.3	2.1	3.2	5.7	regular cigarettes

As can be seen from Table 1, in terms of hearing and taste, Example 1 produced superior results, that is, results in hearing and taste being weakened compared to Comparative Example 2 as well as Comparative Example 1, and irritation was also reduced. results were obtained.

In addition, despite the fact that Example 1 exhibited excellent performance in this sensory quality, it was found that in fact, no significant difference was derived from Comparative Example 1, which is the prior art, in the reduction of preference, that is, the heterogeneity compared to conventional cigarettes.

Therefore, through Example 1 to which the present invention was applied, it was confirmed that off-flavor and irritation could be reduced while maintaining the properties as a cigarette as much as possible.

Experiment 2. Sensory test for non-smokers

For Example 1, Comparative Example 1, and Comparative Example 2, which are commercially available cigarettes, quantitative evaluation was performed on 10 sensory evaluation panels who were non-smokers.

This experiment is an experiment assuming an indirect smoking situation. In a smoking room with an area of 6 m3 and a ceiling height of 2.5 m where ventilation is blocked, the smoker smokes any one of Example 1, Comparative Example 1, and Comparative Example 2 in which the cigarette is smoked, but the cigarette Immediately after smoking so that 1/2 of the filling area except for the filter in was burned, the smoker exited and the non-smoker panel entered the smoking room and stayed there for 10 seconds.

As in Experiment 1 described above, the order of experiments for Example 1, Comparative Example 1, and Comparative Example 2 was set randomly, and sufficient ventilation was performed in the smoking room between each experiment.

The 7-point scaling method was also applied to the quantitative evaluation of this experiment, and the results are shown in Table 2 below.

Evaluation of non-smokers

division	Rating (lowest 1 - highest 7)			note
	Example 1	Comparative Example 1	Comparative Example 2
pepper	4.7	5.3	6.3	Average of 10 panelists

As can be seen from Table 2, in terms of secondhand smoke irritation, Example 1 was superior to Comparative Example 2 as well as Comparative Example 1, that is, the stimulation was weakened.

As such, in manufacturing a cigarette with reduced nicotine and tar through the present invention, while maintaining the properties of the cigarette itself as much as possible, unpleasant off-flavor and irritation from secondhand smoke can be alleviated to a considerable level.

Claims (2)

1. In the manufacturing method of tobacco reducing nicotine and tar,

   A crushing step (S10) of pulverizing dry bellflower, dry ginseng, and dry eumyanggwak to form balloon flower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwa granules;

   A purification step (S21) of immersing the bellflower granules in fermented alcohol having a purity of 95% or more for 30 minutes and then taking out the solids to form purified bellflower granules from which fat-soluble impurities are eluted;

   A roasting step (S22) of forming roasted bellflower granules by drying the purified bellflower granules and roasting them while continuously stirring so as not to burn without adding water or oil;

   A mixing step (S30) of mixing and stirring roasted bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwak granules in equal weight ratios to form mixed granules;

   A blending step (S40) of forming a blended cut filler by mixing 99.1% by weight of cut tobacco leaves and 0.9% by weight of mixed granules;

   A method for producing a cigarette that reduces nicotine and tar, characterized in that it consists of a molding step (S50) of molding the blended cut filler into a cigarette.
2. The method according to claim 1, in the crushing step (S10), dry bellflower, dry ginseng, and dry eumyangkwak are pulverized, respectively, to form 100 mesh to 130 mesh bellflower granules, ginseng granules, and eumyanggwak granules. A method for producing a cigarette characterized by reducing nicotine and tar.

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