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Does peristalsis push or pull food along the gastrointestinal tract?

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Peristalsis is a radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagates in a wave-like motion down a tube, in the forward direction. So, it helps push food along the gastrointestinal tract.

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