When a vegetable gets put in salt water and collapses why does this happen

Osmosis is defined as the movement of solvent (like water) from a region where the concentration of solute(like salt) is lower to a region where the concentration of solute is higher through a semipermeable membrane.

Salt water is a hypertonic solution as the concentration of salt ( solute) is higher. Therefore, in this case water from vegetable will move outside causing the cells to become fragile.

Plasmolysis is when plant cells lose water after being placed in a solution that has a higher concentration of solutes than the cell does. This is known as a hypertonic solution. Water flows out of the cells and into the surrounding fluid due to osmosis

When a vegetable is placed in very salty water the vegetable becomes soft and collapses Why does this happen?

The cell would lose water and the membrane would collapse. When a vegetable is placed in very salty water, the vegetable becomes soft and collapses. Why does this happen? The cells of the vegetable lose their water.

answer: land bridge theory. land bridge theory held that shifting portions of dry land explained the finding of identical species on different continents. plate tectonic theory eventually eliminated the land bridge theory.