The invention provides a method of extracting and isolating certain compounds from tobacco. The resulting isolate can include more than 90% by weight of a given compound and can be used as a flavor component for tobacco material used in smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions. Exemplary compounds that may be present in the isolate according to the invention include, but are not limited to, solanone, neophytadiene, megastigmatrienone, β-damascenone, norsolanadione, cis-abienol, α-cembratrienediol, β-cembratrienediol, sucrose esters, lutein, degradation products thereof, and mixtures thereof.
本发明提供了一种从烟草中提取和分离某些化合物的方法。所得到的分离物可包括 90% 以上(按重量计)的特定化合物,并可用作吸烟用品和无烟烟草组合物中所用烟草材料的
香料成分。根据本发明的分离物中可能存在的示例化合物包括但不限于
茄酮、新茄二烯、大司马
三烯酮、β-大马士革烯酮、诺沙拉二酮、顺式abienol、α-cembratrienediol、β-cembratrienediol、
蔗糖酯、
叶黄素、其降解产物以及它们的混合物。