METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT KRETEKS Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A24B3/12 A24B15/24 A24D1/18 

FIELD: tobacco products.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the process of manufacturing smokable products. The process of manufacturing kreteks consists in extracting pepper mint with liquid carbon dioxide and separating miscella, blending shredded tobacco with clove and a plasticiser, soaking the obtained blend in the miscella with simultaneous pressurisation, depressurisation to atmospheric pressure at a rate providing freezing of the carbon dioxide soaked into the miscella, then heating up at a rate providing sublimation of the carbon dioxide, obtaining an expanded mixture and forming a smokable product thereof.

EFFECT: kreteks produced in this way have a predetermined content of flavours compatible with the tobacco smoke aroma, hardness and filter breaking characteristic of uniform tobacco products, even smouldering throughout the length of an article They are characterised by a reduced tar and nicotine content in their smoke, thus allowing to subsume them to light-type smokable products.