Abstract:
In order to develop high quality reconstituted tobacco for heated tobacco products, bacterial cellulose (BC) obtained by fermentation using tobacco leaves combined with tobacco extracts and tobacco filter residues were mixed to prepare BC reconstituted tobacco based on whole tobacco components. The BC reconstituted tobacco was compared with three typical commercial reconstituted tobacco products for heated tobacco products. A systematic analysis was carried out in terms of appearance, microstructure, main chemical components, thermogravimetric properties and pyrolyzed aroma products. The results showed that: 1) BC reconstituted tobacco had a good formability with uniform appearance, and its physical indicators were close to those of commercial slurry processed reconstituted tobacco products. 2) Compared with the three typical reconstituted tobacco products, BC reconstituted tobacco had similar infrared absorption, however, BC reconstituted tobacco had a dense structure and the diameter of BC fibers was 43.68-75.80 nm under scanning electron microscope. 3) The total heat absorption of BC reconstituted tobacco was the largest and up to 9.52 J·g
-1. 4) The sugar content in BC reconstituted tobacco was 6.17% and the nicotine content reached 13.17 mg·g
-1, and the pyrolysis of BC reconstituted tobacco released 45 kinds of aroma substances, in which the releases of ketone-aldehyde aroma substances were significantly higher than those of the control samples.