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Really high sugar concentrations will pop the cells of any simple organisms.


No, low. High sugar concentrations mean low water activity, which osmotically pumps water out of cells, not into them, so they shrivel rather than popping.


Thanks.


Sure!


I like to imagine it as humans stranded in a strange land where all the geography is dry cake. And only dry cake.


I definitely have been in some countries where their desserts felt from a strange land indeed: everything dried :'(. I need moist.


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