Table 4 Water and moisture contents for US STPs (CT, DS and HP)
From: The composition of contemporary American and Swedish smokeless tobacco products
|  | Style | Water (%) | Moisture (%) | BAT oven-KF (%) | Labstat oven—KF (%) | NIR—KF (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Karl Fischer water | NIR water | Labstat oven moisture | BAT oven moisture | |||||
Beech Nut | CT | 21.3 | 24.1 | 18.7 | 27.6 | 6.3 | − 2.6 | 2.8 |
Chattanooga | 18.7 | 21.1 | 24.8 | 24.3 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 2.4 | |
Durango | 20.1 | 23.4 | 22.7 | 25.9 | 5.8 | 2.6 | 3.3 | |
Lancaster | 20.2 | 22.3 | 24.3 | 25.6 | 5.4 | 4.1 | 2.1 | |
Levi Garrett | 17.5 | 22.9 | 23.2 | 23.4 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.4 | |
Morgans | 18.8 | 22 | 22.8 | 24 | 5.2 | 4 | 3.2 | |
Red man gold | 21.1 | 25.8 | 26.4 | 27 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.7 | |
Red man regular | 20.6 | 25.3 | 25.8 | 27 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 4.7 | |
Southern pride | 21.2 | 24.5 | 25.6 | 26.7 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 3.3 | |
Starr | 18 | 22.9 | 24.8 | 26.1 | 8.1 | 6.8 | 4.9 | |
Stoker 707 wintergreen | 18.7 | 20.7 | 21.8 | 23.8 | 5.1 | 3.1 | 2 | |
Taylors Pride | 16 | 22.1 | 23.5 | 24 | 8 | 7.5 | 6.1 | |
Trophy | 19.2 | 23 | 24.1 | 24.9 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 3.8 | |
Average CT | 19.3 | 23.1 | 23.7 | 25.4 | 6.1 | 4.4 | 3.7 | |
SD CT | 1.60 | 1.52 | 2.02 | 1.43 | 0.96 | 2.51 | 1.31 | |
Bruton | DS | 5.8 | 7.12 | 9.37 | 9.2 | 3.4 | 3.57 | 1.32 |
Dental Sweet | 4.5 | 7.93 | 10 | 9.5 | 5 | 5.5 | 3.43 | |
Garrett | 4.8 | 8.22 | 10 | 9 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 3.42 | |
Honest | 4.3 | 7.25 | 10 | 8.7 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 2.95 | |
Square | 7.4 | 7.37 | 8.52 | 8.6 | 1.2 | 1.12 | − 0.03 | |
Average DS | 5.4 | 7.6 | 9.6 | 9.0 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 2.2 | |
SD DS | 1.28 | 0.47 | 0.65 | 0.37 | 0.48 | 1.92 | 1.53 | |
Ariva Java | HP | 3.1 | 1.82 | 3.53 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.43 | − 1.28 |
Stonewall wintergreen | 2.7 | 2.01 | 4.35 | 4.9 | 2.2 | 1.65 | − 0.69 | |
Average HP | 2.9 | 1.92 | 3.94 | 4.35 | 1.45 | 1.04 | − 1.0 | |
SD HP | 0.28 | 0.13 | 0.58 | 0.78 | 1.06 | 0.86 | 0.42 | |