A 2022 Consumer Reports investigation found high levels of heavy metals like cadmium and lead in this product. The voluntary Harkin–Engel protocol has been ineffective in eliminating forced labor in this product. Poor harvests due to extreme weather and blights like black pod disease caused prices for this product to reach record highs in 2024. A 2021 Supreme Court case dismissed a child labor lawsuit filed by kidnapped workers producing this product in Côte d’Ivoire, citing lack of standing to sue multinational companies producing this food like Ferrero. A type of this food with a filling of knafeh (“k’NAH-feh”) and pistachio went viral on TikTok in 2024 and is named for Dubai. For 10 points, name this food made from fermented cocoa beans that comes in milk and dark variants. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 68.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 17.00 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 46% | 78.54 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 74.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 43% | 77.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 83.70 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 86.40 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 89.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 104.75 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 87.08 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 53.20 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 80.50 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 71.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 57.63 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 60.25 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 68.07 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 32.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | Alberta | 2 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 14 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley A | 14 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 14 | -5 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 17 | -5 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | WashU A | 17 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Missouri A | 17 | -5 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 17 | -5 |
| David Worley | LSE A | Imperial A | 17 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Imperial B | 17 | -5 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Manchester B | 17 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 17 | -5 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley E | Stanford B | 17 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | Kenyon B | 17 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | OSU D | 17 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Chicago D | 17 | -5 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Michigan C | 17 | -5 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Louisville B | 17 | -5 |
| Ai Xing | Minnesota B | Macalester B | 17 | -5 |
| James Morgan | Oxford A | Bristol A | 17 | -5 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCLA D | 17 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Queen's B | 17 | -5 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Toronto E | 17 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | George Washington A | 17 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | VCU A | 17 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Penn A | 17 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rowan A | 17 | -5 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 17 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 17 | -5 |
| William Arnesen | Harvard | Tufts B | 17 | -5 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 17 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina A | 19 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 19 | -5 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | Clemson A | 19 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 19 | 10 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | Truman State | 20 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | Pitt B | 20 | -5 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge B | 20 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto D | 21 | 10 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | ERAU A | 21 | -5 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | Virginia Tech A | 21 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 24 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia A | 24 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Kentucky | 24 | -5 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 24 | 10 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 26 | -5 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Nebraska | 30 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto B | 31 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill A | Toronto C | 31 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | CWRU B | 31 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | UIC | 31 | -5 |
| Jason Hatfield | Huntsville B | Alabama A | 31 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | UCSC | 31 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 31 | 10 |
| Jack Didsbury | Durham B | Sheffield C | 32 | 10 |
| Yarden Wallace | Syracuse | Cornell-DII | 33 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern B | 33 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Yale B | 34 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU A | 35 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Minnesota C | 36 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Rochester | 37 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Huntsville A | 37 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McMaster C | 39 | -5 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 43 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick B | 43 | 10 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | George Mason C | 43 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern A | 43 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 44 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 45 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee A | 45 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee A | 45 | 10 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington B | 46 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | ESF | 47 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 48 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Cambridge A | 48 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Williams | 48 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Rose State | 48 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | Maryland C | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 50 | -5 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech D | 50 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto I | 52 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Warwick A | 52 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | FIU | 54 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | UMBC A | 54 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | SIUE | 54 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Clemson B | 54 | -5 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue B | 54 | -5 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton | 54 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Sheffield B | 54 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McGill C | 54 | -5 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Catholic University | 54 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Arizona State A | 56 | -5 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 57 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Tusculum | 61 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Columbia B | 63 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 64 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Michigan B | 64 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Pitt C | 65 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 68 | 10 |
| Thomas Catuosco | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 73 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 74 | -5 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 74 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 74 | -5 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 74 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan A | 74 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol A | Oxford A | 74 | 10 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 74 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 75 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | James Madison | 75 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt A | 75 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McMaster A | 76 | -5 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Guelph A | 76 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | NC State | 77 | 10 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 78 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia B | 78 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Yale A | 78 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Louisville A | 78 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | UTD A | 78 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Chicago C | 83 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Manchester A | 85 | 10 |
| Daniel Pace-Farr | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 85 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 86 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | Melbourne A | 87 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | UCF A | 87 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 87 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 87 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Southampton B | 87 | 10 |
| Jai Spicer | Roanoke | Liberty C | 87 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Purdue C | 87 | 10 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 87 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | City St George's A | 87 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | George Mason B | 87 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Amherst B | 87 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Brown C | 87 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Imperial C | 89 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | UTD B | 89 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Lehigh B | 90 | 10 |
| Nishad Joshi | Kentucky | Illinois C | 95 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 96 | 10 |
| Yishak Kelkay | ERAU A | USF | 97 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 101 | 10 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | North Carolina B | 102 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Indiana B | 105 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill C | McGill B | 108 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 109 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | OSU C | 110 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 113 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Michigan D | 113 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | William Woods | 115 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto F | 116 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 116 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 118 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Illinois B | 119 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 121 | 10 |
| Brody Davidow | George Washington A | Georgetown A | 121 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley E | 125 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Amherst A | 127 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia C | 128 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | OSU B | 128 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Virginia A | 129 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Johns Hopkins A | 129 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU D | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | Bowdoin B | 129 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 129 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Illinois A | 129 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 129 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Guelph B | 129 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | McMaster B | 129 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto H | 129 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | NYU A | 129 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU B | 129 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Princeton A | 129 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Harvard | 129 | 10 |