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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2009
Gong Chen, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Anthony Richard Gerardi, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
John-paul Mua, Advance, NC (US);
Darrell Eugene Holton, Jr., Clemmons, NC (US);
Daniel Verdin Cantrell, Lewisville, NC (US);
Frank Kelley St. Charles, Bowling Green, KY (US);
Gong Chen, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Anthony Richard Gerardi, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
John-Paul Mua, Advance, NC (US);
Darrell Eugene Holton, Jr., Clemmons, NC (US);
Daniel Verdin Cantrell, Lewisville, NC (US);
Frank Kelley St. Charles, Bowling Green, KY (US);
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A method of thermally processing a tobacco material is provided, the method including the steps of (i) mixing a tobacco material, water, and an additive selected from the group consisting of lysine, glycine, histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, phenylalanine, valine, arginine, di- and trivalent cations, asparaginase, saccharides, phenolic compounds, reducing agents, compounds having a free thiol group, oxidizing agents, oxidation catalysts, plant extracts, and combinations thereof, to form a moist tobacco mixture; (ii) heating the moist tobacco mixture at a temperature of at least about 60° C. to form a heat-treated tobacco mixture; and (iii) incorporating the heat-treated tobacco mixture into a tobacco product. Heat-treated tobacco composition prepared according to the method are also provided, such as heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition comprising a tobacco material, water, flavorant, binder, and filler, the heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition having an acrylamide content of less than about 2000 ppb.