METHOD FOR PRODUCING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A24B3/14 

FIELD: tobacco products.

SUBSTANCE: method involves extracting strawberry jelly with liquid carbon dioxide and separating a respective miscella. The tobacco material is mixed up with liquid carbon dioxide, extracted and shredded by relieving periodically the pressure in the extraction mixture below the pressure of carbon dioxide moist steam at extraction temperature. Afterwards miscellas and meal are separated and the miscellas obtained are united. The meal is suspended in an aqueous solution of an edible acid, an edible polyatomic alcohol is introduced into the suspension and the suspension is formed, dried to a residual humidity of 13-15%, cut and treated with the miscellas mixture by raising simultaneously the pressure. Then the process of depressurising to atmospheric pressure with simultaneous freezing of soaked carbon dioxide and its distillation is carried out to obtain in the remnant the target product.

EFFECT: improvement of reconstituted tobacco organoleptical properties, decrease of technological process duration.