What makes crackers, cereal, chips and similar foods feel soft/strange textured after they’re exposed to air for a few days?

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What makes crackers, cereal, chips and similar foods feel soft/strange textured after they’re exposed to air for a few days?

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Crackers, cereal, chips, etc are very dry. By comparison the air is very wet, do they absorb water as they sit. As they absorb water they swell and become soft. It’s a lot like those little toys that you put in water and they get bigger as they absorb water.

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