f) Based on what you have learned about osmosis, explain why grocery stores spray their vegetables with water?
Turgor pressure in a plant cell pushes the cytoplasm against the nonliving cell wall. The water pressure dries out the cells and the vegetables as a whole. The vegetable dries out and becomes more flaccid. When water is sprayed on the vegetables it diffuses on the cell wall meaning that the water goes from an area of high concentration which is outside of the cell, to an area of low concentration which is inside the cell, through a selectively permeable membrane. Since the diffusion uses water, this is called osmosis, the diffusion of water.