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 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley A | 14 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 14 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 14 | 10 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley E | Stanford B | 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 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 17 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 17 | -5 |
| William Arnesen | Harvard | Tufts B | 17 | -5 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 17 | -5 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 17 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | WashU A | 17 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Missouri A | 17 | -5 |
| James Morgan | Oxford A | Bristol A | 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 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 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 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 17 | -5 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | Clemson A | 19 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina A | 19 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 19 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 19 | 10 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | Truman State | 20 | -5 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge B | 20 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | Pitt B | 20 | -5 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | Virginia Tech A | 21 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto D | 21 | 10 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | ERAU A | 21 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia A | 24 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Swarthmore 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 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 31 | 10 |
| Jason Hatfield | Huntsville B | Alabama A | 31 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto B | 31 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill A | Toronto C | 31 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | UCSC | 31 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | CWRU B | 31 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | UIC | 31 | -5 |
| Jack Didsbury | Durham B | Sheffield C | 32 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern B | 33 | 10 |
| Yarden Wallace | Syracuse | Cornell-DII | 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 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Huntsville A | 37 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Rochester | 37 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McMaster C | 39 | -5 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | George Mason C | 43 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 43 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern A | 43 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick B | 43 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 44 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee A | 45 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee A | 45 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 45 | 10 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington B | 46 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | ESF | 47 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Williams | 48 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Rose State | 48 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 48 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Cambridge A | 48 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 50 | -5 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech D | 50 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | Maryland C | 50 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto I | 52 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Warwick A | 52 | -5 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McGill C | 54 | -5 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Clemson B | 54 | -5 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Catholic University | 54 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | FIU | 54 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | UMBC A | 54 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | SIUE | 54 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Sheffield B | 54 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue B | 54 | -5 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton | 54 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 74 | -5 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 74 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 74 | -5 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 74 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol A | Oxford A | 74 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 74 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan A | 74 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | James Madison | 75 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 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 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia B | 78 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Yale A | 78 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | UTD A | 78 | 10 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 78 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Louisville A | 78 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Chicago C | 83 | 10 |
| Daniel Pace-Farr | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 85 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Manchester A | 85 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 86 | 10 |
| Jai Spicer | Roanoke | Liberty C | 87 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 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 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 87 | 10 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 87 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | City St George's A | 87 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | Melbourne A | 87 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | UCF A | 87 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Purdue C | 87 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Southampton B | 87 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | UTD B | 89 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Imperial C | 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 |
| Brody Davidow | George Washington A | Georgetown A | 121 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Virginia A | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | Bowdoin B | 129 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 129 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Harvard | 129 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Johns Hopkins A | 129 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | NYU A | 129 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU B | 129 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 129 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Princeton A | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU D | 129 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Illinois A | 129 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 129 | 10 |