Steaz Orange Energy Drink does a great job of blending their fruity flavor with the Acai, matte and green tea in them to make a very natural, earthy drink, more sweet and easily drinkable that either the lemon lime or berry versions. Like the other versions I have reviewed, this is advertised as 100% vegan, and full of exotic and tasty ingredients.

Buzz/Nutrition:8
like the other flavors, this all organic, fair trade. drink is both good for you and good for the planet as well. This is advertised as 100% vegan, and full of exotic ingredients such as Yerba Mate and Acai fruit, as well as green tea, and Vitamin C and of course it is caffeinated from guarana too. the Matene was more gradual an energy lifter than caffeine, so the guarana/yerba mate led to a longer more level buzz, rather than a super high and crash. There is 120 calories with 35 grams of sugar in here, along with acai, yerba mate, green tea, beta carotene, Vitamin C, and Vitamin A.

Taste:10
Steaz’s Lime Energy Drink has the same tea and mate flavor, but now they’ve added orange to the mix and produced even tastier than the lime. Maybe it is because of all the bad orange drinks out there, this one is so full of complex flavors and not too sweet, I am still a big fan of Steaz – and hope they can keep it up.

Packaging:5
the bright orange can works much much better than the lime green or the washed out berry color. This one seems much more energy drink -ish, but more importantly, the orange is dark enough to read everything else on the label without needing bright sunlight and concentration. the newsprint photo of happy bean pickers works better than the photos on the back of the berry and lime cans, but still does not work all that well. They advertise their badges proudly, (certified badge, vegan badge, etc…) but they are huge and take up a big portion of the can. I do appreciate all the info they put on it, but the display of that information could have been layed out nicer, with certain elements (do you need all 4 of the organic logos on it?) not as packed in and busy.

website:http://www.steazenergy.com/ 9
Beautifully designed flash site that is full of enough bells and whistles to give the impression of a very sophisticated site, without actually relying on flash’s more flashy techniques to have to artificially pump up the sites image. There is a ton of information from the drinks to the additives to links to others helping the rainforest. This site not only teaches about the drink, but about the world we live in and how drinking this drink will bring us all one step closer to saving rainforests, our bodies, our planet, the hunger filled tribes across the globe and bring global peace and unity. ok – well at least I found out what Yerba Mate is supposed to do.