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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2016
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
William Monroe Coleman, III, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Michael Francis Dube, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Darlene Madeline Lawson, Kernersville, NC (US);
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A tobacco composition for use in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco composition is provided, the composition including a component derived from a seed of thespecies. The component can be a seed of thespecies or a portion thereof in particulate form or in the form of seed isolate derived from a seed of thespecies. In certain embodiments, the seed isolate is in the form of a chemically transformed seed isolate, the chemical transformation being selected from hydrogenation, acid/base reaction, hydrolysis, thermal treatment, and enzymatic treatment. The invention also provides smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions that include the seed components described herein, and methods for preparing a component derived from a seed of thespecies for addition to a tobacco composition.