the best artisan in relation to ingredients, the most important part is the cocoa of course. if the beans are of a good variety with nice and smooth cocoa flavour, and if they have been well fermented and dried by the farmer, well roasted and milled into cocoa mass to which quality milk powder and sugar...
that makes it difficult for most bacteria to grow. the amount of acid present is very important to the safety of the product. pickled products are also heated in jars at boiling temperatures to destroy any other microorganisms present and form a vacuum in the jar. jams and jellies have a very high sugar...