Blue, loose

[nat]

Hiya
Has anyone seen or tried blue loose snus?
http://www.northerner.com/en/snus/Northerner_Pre-Order_Snus-436/Blue,%20Loose-22593/[/img]

[tom502]

First I've ever seen this.

[lxskllr]

One of the Swedes here(if I remember right) had some . Said it was good, but he didn't say it was mind blowing or anything. I'll certainly give it a try.

Edit:
I should have gone with my original inclination and said he was Norwegian. I thought so, but it seemed like the Swedes would have gotten a new snus first, so I went with them...

Yeah it's called Blue, or Blå. :P
I think it's manufactored by Tiedemanns, which sells the rolling (cigarette) tobacco that is most used in Norway.
The snus is ok, tastes a bit like skruf. Not my favourite, but I had to try it

From this thread...

http://www.snuson.com/viewtopic.php?...=asc&start=120

Justin shows another snus that could come to Northerner also.

[daruckis]

curious...

must try...

[sandman1911]

I was waiting for someone to try this, and now that I see it's tastes like Skruf, I will be passing on it.

[justintempler]

Contents: Nicotine (about) 8 Mg/g
Water (about) 55%
Humectants (E422 & E1520)
Acidity Regulator (E 500)
Dye (E 150a)

E150a is listed as, and is used as a food coloring

I am curious though if it also adds sweetness to the snus?

http://www.caramel.com/a-155-53-Euro...ive-95-45.aspx

E150a PLAIN CARAMEL
Definition: Plain caramel is prepared by the controlled heat treatment of carbohydrates (commercially available food grade nutritive sweeteners which are the monomers glucose and fructose and/or polymers thereof, e.g., glucose syrups, sucrose, and/or invert syrups, and dextrose). To promote caramelization, acids, alkalis and salts may be employed, with the exception of ammonium compounds and sulphites

[Snusdog]

I'm waiting for the extra stark version called "Yuck"

Sometimes marketing guys amaze me. Like when Ford tried to sell the Nova line of cars in Mexico (No Va = No go). ops:


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[lxskllr]

Contents: Nicotine (about) 8 Mg/g
Water (about) 55%
Humectants (E422 & E1520)
Acidity Regulator (E 500)
Dye (E 150a)

E150a is listed as, and is used as a food coloring

I am curious though if it also adds sweetness to the snus?

http://www.caramel.com/a-155-53-Euro...ive-95-45.aspx

E150a PLAIN CARAMEL
Definition: Plain caramel is prepared by the controlled heat treatment of carbohydrates (commercially available food grade nutritive sweeteners which are the monomers glucose and fructose and/or polymers thereof, e.g., glucose syrups, sucrose, and/or invert syrups, and dextrose). To promote caramelization, acids, alkalis and salts may be employed, with the exception of ammonium compounds and sulphites

I didn't notice it had dye in it. That takes off my list of snus to try. I won't buy it out of principle.

[Kahuna]

I was thinking of putting in a pre-order for some,now I'll wait for a couple reviews first.

[cj]

i think i need some of this

[bakerbarber]

Contents: Nicotine (about) 8 Mg/g
Water (about) 55%
Humectants (E422 & E1520)
Acidity Regulator (E 500)
Dye (E 150a)

E150a is listed as, and is used as a food coloring

I am curious though if it also adds sweetness to the snus?

http://www.caramel.com/a-155-53-Euro...ive-95-45.aspx

E150a PLAIN CARAMEL
Definition: Plain caramel is prepared by the controlled heat treatment of carbohydrates (commercially available food grade nutritive sweeteners which are the monomers glucose and fructose and/or polymers thereof, e.g., glucose syrups, sucrose, and/or invert syrups, and dextrose). To promote caramelization, acids, alkalis and salts may be employed, with the exception of ammonium compounds and sulphites

I didn't notice it had dye in it. That takes off my list of snus to try. I won't buy it out of principle.

Actually it's interesting you guys noticed this.

I spoke with a collegue about caramel color. We use small amounts of it. Extremely small. It augments the color of some of our products where I work. We use it to mimic the Maillard reaction to some extent.

At a trade show last spring I was riding a shuttle to the airport and was chit chatting witht the fellow sitting next to me.

We exchanged cards. I spoke to his boss earlier this week, my card made it to his desk. It was very interesting to learn about caramel coloring and the myriad of uses it has.

He specifically told me that the TOBACCO companies are the fastest growing segment of the market for their product. Cigars mostly, because demand outpaces the supply of naturally aged and darkened outer wrappers.

Cola companies are the biggest users, but to hear it was used in tobacco made me angry. I was going to look up the "e" number this weekend and check my snus cans.

There are no coincidences, you guys are already discussing it.... cool

Anyway, I've seen this new product, never tried it, and don't plan on it.

[lxskllr]

Actually it's interesting you guys noticed this.

I spoke with a collegue about caramel color. We use small amounts of it. Extremely small. It augments the color of some of our products where I work. We use it to mimic the Maillard reaction to some extent.

At a trade show last spring I was riding a shuttle to the airport and was chit chatting witht the fellow sitting next to me.

We exchanged cards. I spoke to his boss earlier this week, my card made it to his desk. It was very interesting to learn about caramel coloring and the myriad of uses it has.

He specifically told me that the TOBACCO companies are the fastest growing segment of the market for their product. Cigars mostly, because demand outpaces the supply of naturally aged and darkened outer wrappers.

Cola companies are the biggest users, but to hear it was used in tobacco made me angry. I was going to look up the "e" number this weekend and check my snus cans.

There are no coincidences, you guys are already discussing it.... cool

Anyway, I've seen this new product, never tried it, and don't plan on it.

I don't care for artificial colors in general, but I'll accept them for some products(candy is a good example). It gets under my skin when they're used to augment a natural product to make them "extra natural". It comes off as being unnecessary, and disingenuous. I've seen roasted pumpkin seeds with titanium dioxide added to make them extra white. Seriously?!?! Is that /really/ necessary? There's nothing wrong with plain salted pumpkin seeds. They look fine, and taste great. They don't need any extra crap added. Maybe the artificial ones taste like crap, so they make them pretty to help cover it up. Maybe the Blå is the same way....