Royal Pretzels Moving to the BODY WORLDS Museum in Heidelberg, Germany

BODY WORLDS curator Dr. Angelina Whalley celebrated the introduction of the pretzels to the BODY WORLDS museum yesterday: "We are proud and very happy that we not only were able to plastinate the pretzels, but also to win the charity auction," says Whalley. The auction amount of € 2,355.67 now will go to children and families in need.

Plastinating food items is not part of Gunther von Hagens' (72) every day routine. "However, the individual steps of plastinating a pretzel are similar to those we employ when plastinating human specimens," says plastinator von Hagens, adding: "Water and fat contained in the specimen are replaced by polymer under vacuum conditions. In order to be sure that we would be using the perfect polymer mixture, we ran a number of trial plastinations before actually working on the royal pretzels."

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