tobacco color question?

Question

I am just bored and wondering, Tobacco is a green plant right? So why is smoking tobacco brown? And why is snuff black? This seems weird to me.

Answer 1

Tobacco leaves are green when they are on the plant, but they dry to a brown color just like most other leaves. The color of the leaf can be changed by the drying process to yield colors ranging from almost black, to very light brown, and occasionally light green. Green tobacco is used almost exclusively for wrappers for cigars known as candella while black leaves can be used for wrappers on "maduro" cigars, chopped for pipe smoking or rolling cigarettes, made into chewing tobacco, or dried further and powdered to make real english style snuff. All of the other shades can be used in the same manner. Just like coffee, tobacco takes on unique flavors from the soil in which it grows, yielding many different possibilities in flavor.

Answer 2

I had helped an old man a few years ago cut and hang his tobacco i thought it was kind of neat

when your cutting and hanging it it's really sticky

you hang it up side down by the stalk

i remember we hung it in a dark building don't remember the reason for that

but it was brown after the drying process and it took a while
he used it for chewing tobacco so there has to be some kind of chemicals add to whats black
and i'm sure there is chemicals added to almost anything now days

Answer 3

Tobacco is dried in a large oven type of barn. Often it is cured at high temperatures and then a high humidity is used to condition the tobacco. How do I know this? Tobacco farmers daughter for over 20 years. The tobacco companies then put the chemicals into the cured and graded tobacco.

Answer 4

Because smoking tobacco has been cured and often toasted. Snuff is chemically processed. In both cases, the plant is dried first.

Answer 5

Some claim it's dried and treated with extra chemicals