Abstract: Aromatized reconstituted tobacco is prepared from tobacco particles by extracting the particles with water to form an extract containing between 5 and 20 g/l of sugar, fermenting the extract with a yeast of the genera kluyveromyces, saccharomyces or candida, forming sheets from the extracted particles, and incorporating the fermented extract into those sheets.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 6, 1987
Date of Patent:
January 23, 1990
Assignee:
LTR Industries
Inventors:
Nicolas Baskevitch, Gilbert Ferrer, Laurent Wagner