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Effects of Fuels and Varieties on Aroma of Malawi Dark-fired Tobacco

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

T. W. Tanton
Affiliation:
Chitedze Agricultural Research Station, P. O. Box 158, Lilongwe, Malawi†

Summary

Dark-firc-cured tobacco varieties produced acceptable tobacco when cured with the wood of the fast-growing tropical tree Gmelina arborea, with an aroma as good as from the best traditional curing timber in Malawi. The addition to the fire of slow-burning, wet banana stalks or Kingelia pinnata fruit to increase the smoke did not change the desirability of the aroma. Factors which increase the stickiness of the leaf increase the desirability of the aroma of cured leaf.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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