Preparation of Tea Flavors and Their Applications in Cigarettes
The kinds and composition of tea,the preparation technology and application status of tea tobacco flavors were reviewed.Tea is rich in tea polyphenols,tea polysaccharides,theanine,tea pigments,volatile components,which are the material basis for the differences in taste and efficacy of tea and tea tobacco flavors.Solvent extraction and distillation,membrane separation technology,supercritical carbon dioxide extraction,subcritical extraction and other technologies have been applied to the preparation of tea tobacco flavors,and have been widely studied and applied in cigarette blending formulation,cigarette filter,aluminum foil paper,cigarette glue.The current researches on tea tobacco flavors were summarized,and the future research directions were prospected.