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Burley tobacco is a light, air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns and allowed to dry over a period of four to eight weeks. Air-cured tobacco is low in sugar, which gives the tobacco smoke a light, sweet flavour. Virginia tobacco that has been flue-cured is also called bright tobacco, because flue curing turns its leaves gold, orange, or yellow. Fire curing gives the leaves a distinctive smoky aroma and flavor.

Curing and subsequent aging allow for the slow oxidation and degradation of carotenoids in the tobacco leaf. This produces various compounds in the tobacco leaves that give cured tobacco its sweet aroma. Megastigmatrienone is the key flavor compound in tobacco. Solanone is an unsaturated ketone that is naturally present in tobacco leaves.

The carotenoid-derived compounds are not major constituents of tobacco essential oil, but their olfactory contribution is decisive for the development of tobacco fragrance. β-Damascenone is described as a powerful fruity-floral odor complex, with apple, plum, rose, raisin, tea, blackcurrant, and tobacco notes. Tobacco leaves contain 2 to 8% nicotine, combined as malate or citrate.

Oriental sun-cured tobacco is low in both sugar and nicotine but fragrant, herbal and spicy.

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