Question

(i) Why do we soak kidney beans in water overnight ?
(ii) Name the scientific phenomenon involved during soaking of kidney beans ?
(iii) Name atleast one more food item that is cooked in this way.

Answer 1

(i) Kidney beans are covered with tight cell wall and permeable plasma membrane. By the process of endosmosis, water is diffused in kidney beans upon soaking overnight and they get swollen and beans palatable after cooking.
(ii) Endosmosis.
(iii) White grams.