Non-tobacco moist snuff composition and a method for its manufacture

Abstract

A non-tobacco snuff composition for oral use including at least one type of plant fibers with a high dietary fiber content, wherein the fiber dietary content in the composition is 15-90 w/w % based on the dry weight of the composition and a method for manufacturing the non-tobacco snuff composition.

1 . A non-tobacco moist snuff composition for oral use comprising one or more types of plant fibers with a high dietary fiber content, wherein the dietary fiber content in the composition is 15-90 w/w % based on the dry weight of the composition. 
     
     
         2 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the dietary fibre content in the composition is 20-85 w/w % based on the dry weight of the composition. 
     
     
         3 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the total amount of dietary fiber content in the composition is 25-80 w/w % based on the dry weight of the composition. 
     
     
         4 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the plant fibers are a mixture of two or more types of plant fibers. 
     
     
         5 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the plant fibers are selected from the group consisting of maize fibers, oat fibers, tomato fibers, barley fibers, rye fibers, sugar beet fibers, buck wheat fibers, potato fibers, cellulose fibers, apple fibers, cocoa fibers, bamboo fibers, citrus fibers, and combinations thereof. 
     
     
         6 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 5 , wherein the plant fibers comprise oat fibers. 
     
     
         7 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 5 , wherein the plant fibers comprise cocoa fibers. 
     
     
         8 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 5 , wherein the plant fibers are a mixture of oat and cocoa fibers. 
     
     
         9 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , further comprising one or more humectants, NaCl and optionally other ingredients. 
     
     
         10 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 9 , further comprising at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of caffeine, red clover, Echinacea, Green tea extract, Maca, Mate, Matcha, Roiboos, ginger, rose hips, white clover, sweet clover, ginseng, guarana, arctic root, rosemary, buckthorn, bilberry, cranberry, lingon berry, anise, clove, gum tragacanth, gum arabic, gum acacia, gum karaya, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, and combinations thereof. 
     
     
         11 . A non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 10 , wherein the at least one ingredient is caffeine, guarana and/or ginseng. 
     
     
         12 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 9 , further comprising one or more additional salts, dyes, flavours and flavour additives. 
     
     
         13 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 9 , wherein the flavour additive is selected from extracts from fruits, leaves, berries, vegetables, barks and herbs or a combination thereof. 
     
     
         14 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 12 , wherein the additional salt is a carbonate or ammonium chloride. 
     
     
         15 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 9 , wherein the humectant is glycerol or propylene glycol or a combination thereof. 
     
     
         16 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the composition comprises 30 to 50 w/w % water based on the total weight of the composition. 
     
     
         17 . The non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the composition is provided in form of pouches, lozenges or as is in particular form in cans or boxes. 
     
     
         18 . A method of manufacturing a non-tobacco moist snuff composition according to  claim 1 , comprising:
 a) providing the plant fibers;   b) processing the plant fibers provided in step a), preceded by mixing, if more than one type of plant fibers is used or if fibers with different size distribution are used; wherein step b) comprises:
 i) adding water, one or more humectants, and NaCl and optionally other ingredients to the plant fibers under stirring to form a mixture; 
 ii) heating and keeping the mixture heated, thus achieving a pasteurisation of the mixture, 
 iii) cooling the moist snuff mixture; and 
   iv) optionally adding other ingredients such as one or more additional salts, humectants, dyes, flavours and flavour additives, such as liquorice and ammonium chloride,   c) and optionally packing, either in pouches, which is preferred, or as is in cans.