If you are provided with some vegetables to cook. You generally add salt into the vegetables during cooking process. After adding Salt, vegetables realease water. What mechanism is responsible for this?

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When salt is applied to vegetables, it creates a higher ion concentration at the surface than exists deep within the cells. To equalize the concentration levels, the water within the cells is drawn out through the permeable cell walls by the process of osmosis.

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