DNA energy drink has come up with something pretty cool with their Orange flavored energy drink. If you can find this around your area, I would definitely pick one up. While it tastes an unexpected orange, it is loads different than NOS or Rockstar juiced. This is a great mix of red bull and orange crush – giving you a stronger mix than a lot of the popular mixes and a really fantastic and unexpected flavor.

Packaging:6
Like the other energy drinks they have, this is the one flaw in their new drink. The name is fantastic and their printing is fine, but their design is wrong in a very elemental level. The little clear metal can colored figures of people skateboarding or of the guitar are pretty silly, and their DNA logo does not really fit their marketing for either extreme sports or following the DNA strand theme they were going with with the other design. On the back of the can there is a most amazing skull/DNA strand logo that is 100 times cooler and wold really help sell this drink much much more. They list the caffeine content and the other ingredients , which I do appreciate, but the overall design of this one is pretty sorry. I would find the person who came up with the skull/dna strand design and have him redesign your entire can using the 2 color print job, keeping in mind the double facing issue in convenience stores. Look at what was done with Rage energy drink and other unconventional drinks with great packaging and come up with a much cleaner design.
Taste: 8
When I normally open a can of something called citrus, I rarely expect something orange. Usually I get something grapefruity or something with a lemon lime flavor. But, seeing as the other flavor I received was lemon lime, I figured this one to taste a bit different – and was very pleasantly surprised. Most orange drinks are very sweet – overdoing it with the stickiness and ending up with a mix somewhere between orange crush and melted Popsicle. DNA citrus stands out by giving us a drink which tastes much more tart and less sweet – tasting more like an orange flavored standard energy drink than an orange pop. This tastes like it is taking itself much more seriously than most other orange flavored sodas out there providing nutrition and other energy ingredients along with the flavor, as opposed to giving you a sugar rush. They did flavor this with High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is really a shame, as using another healthier and less heavy sweetener would have really helped this drink go the extra steps to a truly fantastic flavor. However, I would easily grab a can of this before thinking about a Rockstar or Monster Khaos.

Nutrition/Buzz:8
In terms of straight buzz, DNA really does the trick. The 200mg per can of caffeine is a nice decent buzz, but is unfortunately helped with the sugar rush of the high fructose corn syrup. I say unfortunate because with every sugar high comes the sugar crash when it leaves your system, leaving you draggy a couple hours later.
I got about 4 hours of caffeinated energy from this , which is a pretty decent buzz for me. It also led to the slamming of a double shot four hours later to recover from the drowse I received.