@Gonzalo What makes cornflakes go soggy when they are left in milk too long?

Question: @Gonzalo What makes cornflakes go soggy when they are left in milk too long?
- Keywords:
  cornflakes,
  milk,
  soggy
Asked by Brianerz999 to Gonzalo on 7 Nov 2017.
- Gonzalo Delgado-Pando answered on 7 Nov 2017:
  
  When you leave the cornflakes in milk they absorb the milk and that is why they get soggy. The cornflakes are crispy because they have almost no liquid in it, if you put them inside a liquid they will absorb the liquid, in this case milk. But the same will happen if you put them in water, although I won’t recommend eating cornflakes in water!
  The longer you leave them the more liquid they will absorb and the more soggy they will become

Question: @Gonzalo What makes cornflakes go soggy when they are left in milk too long?