Khushi wanted to eat rice and kideny bean (rajmah). She requested her mother to cook the sme for lunch tomorrwo. At night her mother tol a cup of kidney bean and put them in a coiilainer leaving some water. She kept the container covered overnight. Next morning, she cooked rice and kidney beans for lunch. Khushi inquired her mother the following questions:
(i) Why did she soak didney beans in water
(ii) Name the scientific phenomenon involved in above process.
(iii) Name alteast one more foood item that is cooked in this way.

Explanation

(i) Kidney beans are seed and each cell of it is covered with porous cell wall and semipermeable plasma membrane. By the process of endosmosis, water is diffussed in kidney beans upon soaking overnight end they get swollen and become palatable after cooking.
(ii) Endosomosis.
(iii) White grams (Kabul chana or choley or chicken pea (gram of chana).