Is salad dressing hypertonic or hypotonic?

Here's why:

* Hypertonic solutions have a higher concentration of solutes (like salt and sugar) than the solution they are compared to (in this case, your cells).

* Hypotonic solutions have a lower concentration of solutes than the solution they are compared to.

Salad dressing is typically high in salt and sometimes sugar, which makes its solute concentration higher than the inside of your cells. If you were to put a cell in salad dressing, water would move out of the cell and into the dressing, causing the cell to shrink.

Important note: This is a simplification. Different salad dressings have varying levels of salt and sugar, and some might even be hypotonic if they are low in those ingredients. However, the general rule is that salad dressings are hypertonic due to their high salt content.