Olde Viking 5
Olde Viking 5
To get the facts straight on when Swedish Snus was made and how?
To summaries the history I could start with saying that in the beginning of 18 century did Sweden start with oral Snus in which we call it LÖS Snus. In 1822 did Ljunglöfs start its professional production until 1915. In 1915 were there around 100 snus producers around Sweden, and that when STA (Svenska Tobak Aktiebolag) came into the picture. In 1915 the fifth tobacco monopoly was a fact. All kinds of tobacco production were bought out and about a hundred various snus producers were nationalized.
Snus consumption increased correspondingly and beat all records in 1919 when 7.000 tons of snus were sold. During the following years, the snus consumption decreased mainly in favour of cigarettes. In 1967 the national monopoly was dissolved and at the same time snus usage boosted when various reports stressed the health hazard smoking entailed. Until that time all Swedish Snus production was fermented above 60 Decrease Celcius and stored for around a week heating storages. The unique quality of Swedish Snus (=wet snus) is due to the manufacturing process (fermentation), which inactivates the main part of micro-organism that may exist. The process also minimizes the risk for formation of TSNA (tobacco specific nitrosamines) during the production.
During the 70’s individually portioned snus was introduced and sales have steadily increased since then. During 2003 more than 193 millions of snuscans, corresponding to 6.761 tons of snus, were sold in Sweden. Now days manufacturers are using pasteurizing methods to come by the high demands, steaming it around 110 Decrease Celcius for around 4 hours.
GAJANE & GN TOBACCO.
GN Tobacco are using the traditional manual fermentation process with heating room fermentation. This is unique for GN as the competitors are using a fully automatic process where they are speeding up the process by using steam, so that the fermentation is done very fast. GN´s process is around one week of fermentation wich is one of the reasons that GN has the markets lowest levels of TSNA in the portion snus.
Olde Viking:
Since the lab has been a bit delayed with the result and measurements of Olde Viking we where not able to give you guys a correct TSNA level or a nicotine level. But today we have the report and i could confirm that the nicotine level is measured to be 9mg and TSNA level have been measured up to 0.5 PPM.
Is GN tobacco using the same methods as they did for Grand Prix and Roots?
The answer is no they are not using the same method and not even the same tobacco mixture. Gajane has very strictly explained to GN tobacco that they are looking for quality and has pushed the budget to be able to order some of the worlds finest tobacco leafs available.
That is enough for now. Mr. Larry Water will write more on his upcoming article on Gajane and GN Tobacco.
Regards
Adrian
Olde Viking 5
To get the facts straight on when Swedish Snus was made and how?
To summaries the history I could start with saying that in the beginning of 18 century did Sweden start with oral Snus in which we call it LÖS Snus. In 1822 did Ljunglöfs start its professional production until 1915. In 1915 were there around 100 snus producers around Sweden, and that when STA (Svenska Tobak Aktiebolag) came into the picture. In 1915 the fifth tobacco monopoly was a fact. All kinds of tobacco production were bought out and about a hundred various snus producers were nationalized.
Snus consumption increased correspondingly and beat all records in 1919 when 7.000 tons of snus were sold. During the following years, the snus consumption decreased mainly in favour of cigarettes. In 1967 the national monopoly was dissolved and at the same time snus usage boosted when various reports stressed the health hazard smoking entailed. Until that time all Swedish Snus production was fermented above 60 Decrease Celcius and stored for around a week heating storages. The unique quality of Swedish Snus (=wet snus) is due to the manufacturing process (fermentation), which inactivates the main part of micro-organism that may exist. The process also minimizes the risk for formation of TSNA (tobacco specific nitrosamines) during the production.
During the 70’s individually portioned snus was introduced and sales have steadily increased since then. During 2003 more than 193 millions of snuscans, corresponding to 6.761 tons of snus, were sold in Sweden. Now days manufacturers are using pasteurizing methods to come by the high demands, steaming it around 110 Decrease Celcius for around 4 hours.
GAJANE & GN TOBACCO.
GN Tobacco are using the traditional manual fermentation process with heating room fermentation. This is unique for GN as the competitors are using a fully automatic process where they are speeding up the process by using steam, so that the fermentation is done very fast. GN´s process is around one week of fermentation wich is one of the reasons that GN has the markets lowest levels of TSNA in the portion snus.
Olde Viking:
Since the lab has been a bit delayed with the result and measurements of Olde Viking we where not able to give you guys a correct TSNA level or a nicotine level. But today we have the report and i could confirm that the nicotine level is measured to be 9mg and TSNA level have been measured up to 0.5 PPM.
Is GN tobacco using the same methods as they did for Grand Prix and Roots?
The answer is no they are not using the same method and not even the same tobacco mixture. Gajane has very strictly explained to GN tobacco that they are looking for quality and has pushed the budget to be able to order some of the worlds finest tobacco leafs available.
That is enough for now. Mr. Larry Water will write more on his upcoming article on Gajane and GN Tobacco.
Regards
Adrian
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