If you are provided with some vegetables to cook You generally add salt to the vegetables during the cooking process After adding salt vegetables release water What mechanism is responsible for this

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Question :

If you are provided with some vegetables to cook. You generally add salt to the vegetables during the cooking process. After adding salt, vegetables release water. What mechanism is responsible for this?
Submitted on 15/2/2024 | Answered by Vandana Rana

Answer :

Exosmosis is the process of movement of water molecules from inside to the outside of the cell, where the solution is hypertonic due to the presence of salt and thus by adding salt to the vegetables it releases water.

The same principle is used in pickling, where the mangoes (or any other fruit) are soaked in a hypertonic solution of salt.

Then the mangoes will ooze out water and the cell becomes flaccid. This process is called as an exosmosis.