Question

4. If you are provided with some vegetables to cook, you generally add salt into the vegetables during the cooking process. a. What happens to the vegetables after adding salt ? b. Which mechanism is responsible for the changes?Explain. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Generally, we add salt to the vegetables during the cooking process and vegetables release water, this is due to exosmosis. In exosmosis, water moves from higher concentration to lower concentration through the semipermeable membrane. As the concentration of water inside the cell (in vegetables) is greater than the outside environment (hypertonic). Therefore, the cell releases water in the outside environment and shrinks. Moreover, in exosmosis water moves out of the cell.

Answer 2

Answer:

Generally, we add salt to the vegetables during the cooking process and vegetables release water, this is due to exosmosis. In exosmosis, water moves from higher concentration to lower concentration through the semipermeable membrane.