KR20000030049A - Process for lowering nicotine contents in tobacco - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A processing method of tobacco leaf is provided, to decrease the content of noxious ingredients including nicotine and tar without any change of peculiar perfume and taste of tobacco, to prevent against disease such as the nicotine addiction, that is caused by tobacco and to help heavy smokers quit smoking effectively. CONSTITUTION: The method for processing tobacco leaf comprises the following steps. A first step is to soak 600g of tobacco leaves in the mixture prepared by mixing 5L of water with 10g of yellow soil, 15g of licorice root and 50g of black bean, then boiling them for 6 hours. A second step is to pick up immersed tobacco leaves to air-dry naturally under the shade for 1 day, to spray air-dried tobacco leaves with rice wine which is chosen among alcoholic drinks. A third step is to steam tobacco leaves being covered with rice wine at a steamer for 1 hour, under which is prepared by the mixture of rice wine and water at a ratio of 1: 3 and a little of vinegar and salt. A fourth step is to dry up steamed tobacco leaves for 1 day and to steam them which are added 1-2g of fresh ginseng and rice wine at the steamer again, under which is prepared by the mixture of rice wine and water at a ratio of 1: 3 and a little of vinegar and salt and dry up them again. The more have the number of times of above mentioned processing steps, the more the content of nicotine could be decreased.

Description

Processing method of tobacco leaf to reduce the content of toxic components including nicotine {PROCESS FOR LOWERING NICOTINE CONTENTS IN TOBACCO}

The present invention relates to a method for reducing toxic components including nicotine in tobacco leaves. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of dramatically reducing the content of nicotine, tar and other toxic components of tobacco by conventional treatment of tobacco leaf, that is, tobacco.

Since cigarettes were introduced from Indians to European society following the Columbus discovery of the Americas, there has been a record that cigarettes have spread rapidly throughout the world, and cigarettes came from Japan during the Imjin War. Cigarettes were once used in psychiatric treatments and for medicinal purposes such as incense burns, but with the passage of time, the habits and toxicity of tobacco became known.

It's not a new fact how serious the harmful effects of tobacco on physical or mental health are. In particular, in view of the recent increase in female smokers and the aging of the smokers, the harm of cigarettes on the society as well as on individuals cannot be left to the point.

Cigarettes contain more than 7,000 substances, 30 of which are fatal toxins that are deadly to the human body, including tar, which is a cancer-causing factor, carbon monoxide, which depletes oxygen in the blood, and bronchitis. This strong nicotine is mentioned. Among them, nicotine is not only self-toxic, but its addictive substance is such a powerful substance that many smokers are hard to quit smoking because of the habitual dependence of nicotine addiction. In the past, nicotine was mistaken for lack of physical dependence and distinguished from cocaine, but nicotine also proved to be physically dependent, and in 1996 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially defined tobacco as an addictive substance. The World Health Organization (WHO) also recently declared war on tobacco.

Nicotine, a colorless alkaloid that represents tobacco's addictiveness, is a substance that causes vomiting, dizziness, and headaches, which are not destroyed in the process of smoking, but are inhaled into the lungs and reach the brain in only 7 seconds. . Nicotine is not only addictive, but also very toxic in itself, with an adult lethal dose of 1 mg of nicotine per kilogram of body weight. Therefore, when the average body weight of the average adult is 60 kg, 60 mg of nicotine is absorbed into the blood at one time, leading to death, and considering that the content of nicotine per cigarette is 10 to 20 mg, tobacco 3-6 If you chew on babies, you might die. The toxicity of nicotine can be seen that the deadly amount of cyanide is two to three times as much as the cyanide toxicity compared to 150 mg for an adult weighing 60 kg.

Therefore, a lot of low nicotine tobacco and the like have been developed, and even other herbs were used as a substitute for tobacco, but the decrease in nicotine content was not satisfactory. In the latter case, since tobacco leaves are not used, nicotine is also not contained, but the inherent aroma of tobacco cannot be enjoyed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for processing tobacco leaves, the content of toxic components including nicotine is significantly reduced.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a processing method of tobacco leaves, while the content of toxic components in tobacco is greatly reduced while the intrinsic aroma of tobacco can be enjoyed invariably.

As a result of intensive research for the above purpose, the inventors have immersed tobacco leaves in water, liquor or a mixture of water and liquor (hereinafter referred to as treatment liquid) or sprayed the treatment liquid on tobacco leaves. It was found that the content of toxic components such as nicotine in the tobacco can be greatly reduced by increasing and drying the tobacco leaves using the treatment liquid. This step can be repeated up to nine times. The greater the number of repetitions, the greater the nicotine content lowering effect.

On the other hand, in addition to the above treatment, by additionally treating alone or mixed licorice, black bean, vinegar, salt, or ginseng known to have the detoxification function of ocher and various toxins known to be excellent in purification, detoxification function and far-infrared radiating effect, Additional detoxification, of course, was able to maintain the taste and aroma of tobacco. As ginseng, red ginseng, ginseng can be used. The licorice, black bean, vinegar, salt, or ginseng is added to maintain the taste and aroma of tobacco rather than lowering toxic components such as nicotine, and may be added in a very small amount.

When using a mixture of liquor and water as the treatment liquid, the ratio is 1: 1 to 5, and the type of liquor used in the present invention and the alcohol content are not important, but for example, shochu, high liquor, takju, jongjong, Alcohol, such as beer, liquor, vodka, wine, can be used individually or in mixture of 2 or more types. Takju is preferable in terms of price and effectiveness.

Prior to the cooking process, water, liquor or a mixture of water and liquor may be optionally heated and used, and the heating temperature may be in the range of 30 to 150 ° C. When heated, the treatment effect is better. In addition, when adding ocher, licorice, black bean, salt, vinegar, or ginseng, either before or after heating of the said process liquid may be sufficient. Similarly, the tobacco leaf may be heated with the treatment liquid, or the tobacco leaf may be treated with the heated treatment liquid.

In addition, when increasing the amount of light, whether it is made of light or strong fire, regardless of the increase in the firepower and the amount of tobacco leaves, the increase of the time is of course.

In the tobacco leaf processing method of the present invention, after dipping the tobacco leaf for 6 to 24 hours in a mixture solution made by dissolving ocher, licorice, and black bean in water or water and liquor, and drying the alcohol leaf evenly on the dried tobacco leaf. It is sprayed, and the mixture is added using a mixture of 1: 1 to 3 ratios of alcohol and water to which a small amount of salt and vinegar are added. Here, the heating process may be performed to increase the treatment efficiency of the mixed solution, and the tobacco leaves may be immersed after heating the mixed solution of ocher, licorice and black bean and water or water and liquor, and immersed tobacco leaves in the mixed solution. Next, you may heat.

Tobacco leaf processing according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is as follows.

(1) The hot water is made by dissolving ocher, licorice, and tobacco leaves in water well and heating to 30-100 占 폚. At this time, the amounts of ocher, licorice and black bean contained in the bath are added in amounts of 5 to 300 g, 5 to 300 g, and 100 to 200 g, respectively, for 5 liters of water. Put the tobacco leaves harvested from the farmhouse in this hot water bath and soak for 6 to 24 hours.

(2) After the immersion tobacco leaf is dried in the shade for one day, and evenly sprayed alcohol selected from shochu, high liquor, Takju, Jeongjong, beer, liquor, vodka, or wine.

(3) Put the tobacco leaves moistened evenly in the liquor into the shiru, and add a little amount of salt and vinegar to the mixture of liquor and water in a ratio of 1: 1 to 5, and add the liquor and water mixed under the shiru for 30 minutes. Steam for 2 hours.

(4) As shown above, the tobacco leaves boiled in shiru are dried again for one day, and the above (3) operation is repeated 2 to 9 times as necessary. The more repetitions, the better the nicotine reduction effect.

(5) Put a small amount of ginseng such as fresh ginseng, dry ginseng, and red ginseng on the tobacco leaf after step (4), and sprinkle alcohol as in step (2).

The above method may be different or may be used together. For example, the steps (1) and (2) may be integrated, that is, tobacco leaves may be immersed in a mixture of liquor, ocher, licorice, black bean, water, vinegar, and salt, heated, and then dried. In addition, the above bath may be heated in advance, and then the tobacco leaves may be dipped and then dried. Alternatively, the tobacco leaf may be dipped in the hot water, or the hot water may be sprayed on the tobacco leaf and then steamed and dried.

Example 1

10 g of ocher, 15 g of licorice, and 50 g of black bean were mixed well with 5 liters of water, and 1 root (600 g) of tobacco leaves was immersed for about 12 hours in a bath obtained by heating for 6 hours. After immersion, the tobacco leaves were dried and dried naturally in the shade for a day, and then Takju was sprayed on the tobacco leaves so that the tobacco leaves were evenly soaked. A small amount of vinegar and salt was added to the 1: 3 mixture of Takju and water under the Shiru, and the tobacco leaves soaked in the Takju were put on the Shiru and steamed for about 1 hour. This is dried again for one day, and this time, 1-2 g of fresh ginseng is added to the tobacco leaves with Takju, and again, a mixture of vinegar and salt is added to the 1: 3 mixture of Takju and water under the base and steamed again. I was.

Example 2

After immersing one root of tobacco leaves for about 12 hours in about 5 liters of a mixture of water and 1: 3 ratio of Takju for about 12 hours, the tobacco leaves were increased in a shiru using the mixture and dried three times. Unlike Example 1, ocher, licorice, black bean, vinegar, salt and ginseng were not added.

In order to measure the nicotine content in tobacco leaves processed according to Examples 1 and 2, the analysis was requested to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. The test was carried out on three tobacco leaves using gas chromatography and the results are shown in Table 1 below. In Table 1, Sample 1 is a common tobacco leaf, Sample 2 is a tobacco leaf treated according to Example 1, Sample 3 of the present invention Example 2.

Sample Number Nicotine Content (wt%) One 0.735 2 0.040 3 0.053

As can be seen from the results of Table 1, the nicotine content of the tobacco leaves of Sample 2 and Sample 3 treated according to the present invention is significantly increased nicotine content of 5.4% and 7.2%, respectively, compared to the tobacco leaf of Sample 1 It can be seen that the degradation. On the other hand, when the tobacco leaf of Sample 2 was put into a pipe and smoked, there was no difference with the taste and aroma of general tobacco. However, the tobacco leaves of Sample 3 had much reduced taste and aroma of tobacco compared to the tobacco leaves of Sample 2. In addition, the tar content was not directly measured, but the tobacco leaves of Sample 2 and Sample 3 were smoked while the number of cigarettes was blackened as the number of smoking cycles increased. Since the inside of the pipe used for cleaning was kept as clean as before smoking, it is estimated that the tar component as well as nicotine was almost completely removed from the tobacco leaves of Sample 2 and Sample 3 treated by the method of the present invention. From these results, it can be surmised that the content of other toxic components was also greatly reduced.

According to the tobacco leaf processing method of the present invention, the content of nicotine and other toxic components can be greatly reduced to less than 10% of the existing leaf tobacco. In addition, according to the additional treatment, the fragrance of the cigarette can be maintained almost intact, and it is possible to prevent various diseases directly caused by the cigarette while enjoying the taste and aroma of the cigarette as well as to help quit smoking of old smokers. Of course, it is expected that it will be able to contribute to the prevention of nicotine addiction, especially for those who have just started smoking.

Claims (6)

Nicotine content, characterized in that the tobacco leaf is immersed in water, liquor or a mixture of water and liquor or sprayed with the treatment liquid on the tobacco leaf, and then the tobacco leaf is added with the treatment liquid and dried. Processing method of tobacco leaves to reduce the. The method according to claim 1, wherein ocher, licorice, black bean, vinegar, salt or ginseng is added to the treatment liquid. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein when a mixture of liquor and water is used as the treatment liquid, the mixing ratio of liquor and water is 1: 1 to 5 (volume ratio). The process according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the cooking and drying steps are repeated 2 to 9 times. 3. Process according to claim 2, characterized in that ocher, licorice and dark bean are added in amounts of 5 to 300 g, 5 to 300 g and 100 to 200 g for 5 liters of water. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the tobacco leaf is immersed or sprayed with the heated treatment liquid, or the tobacco leaf is immersed in the treatment liquid or the treatment liquid is sprayed onto the tobacco leaf, and then the treatment liquid and tobacco leaf are mixed together. A method characterized by heating.