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Which muscle moves your food in the digestive system
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Which muscle moves your food in the digestive system

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Contractions of the esophagus push the food through a sphincter (the anus) and into the stomach.The digestive system moves food along by way of peristalsis, a wavelike contraction of smooth muscle

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