A cook prepares a fresh fruit salad by cutting up a variety of fruits and placing them in a bowl with layers of sugar in between. After two hours the fruit is surrounded by syrup (concentrated sugar solution). Explain, as fully as you can, why syrup (concentrated sugar solution) was produced after two hours.

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1. A cook prepares a fresh fruit salad by cutting up a variety of fruits and placing them in a bowl with layers of sugar in between. After two hours the fruit is surrounded by syrup (concentrated sugar solution). Explain, as fully as you can, why syrup (concentrated sugar solution) was produced after two hours.