Eli5 : How water gets accumulated in coconuts? And why its sweet in taste even though the tree grows in salty water areas…??
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Plants draw water up through their roots and distribute it throughout the plant.
While they often may be near the beach, they don’t really grow in salty water, and excess salt is pushed out by the cells in the roots.
They are sweet because the plant absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, and uses sunlight to drive a process called photosynthesis where energy from the light drives a chemical cycle that makes sugar from carbon dioxide and water. If the plant makes more sugar than it uses, the extra is stored either as sugar (which makes the plant sweet) or as a chain of sugar molecules (starch and / or pectin).
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