Question

Amit bought some vegetables to cook. He generally adds salt into vegetables during
cooking process. After adding salt, vegetables releases water
1. What mechanism is responsible for this?
i. What will be the effect on the cells of vegetables?​

Answer 1

Answer:

On adding salt, the external medium is made hypertonic, i.e., concentration of water is lowered as compared to the concentration of water inside the cell. Thus, water is released from the vegetables due to exosmosis (water molecules goes out of the cell resulting in shrinkage of cell