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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
John-Paul Mua, Advance, NC (US);
Barry Bratcher, Owensboro, KY (US);
Kyle Ford, Germanton, NC (US);
Leigh Hagan, Owensboro, KY (US);
Leigh Ann Blevins Joyce, Lewisville, NC (US);
Joshua D. Morton, Evansville, IN (US);
Samuel Mark Debusk, Lexington, NC (US);
Margarette Elisa Lovette, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes methods of obtaining and/or deriving a sugar-enriched extract from plants of thespecies and methods for incorporation of such extracts into various tobacco compositions. One exemplary method for preparing a sugar-enriched extract comprises contactingplant material with a solvent and extracting sugars into the solvent to form a liquid sugar-containing extract; separating a solid extracted plant material from the liquid sugar-containing extract; clarifying the liquid sugar-containing extract to form a clarified sugar-containing extract and a solids fraction; and isolating the liquid sugar-containing extract to provide a sugar-enriched extract comprising a combined weight of fructose and glucose of at least about 10% by dry weight. In certain embodiments, the sugars of the extract comprise at least about 50% by weight fructose.