Why do dried fruits and beans swell when cooked?

Dried fruits and seeds have little water content When cooked the steam in the cooking permeates into the seeds increasing water content. This causes them to swell as their mass increases.   On the occasion, they burst to because the testa or skin cannot support the increasing size of the seeds.

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