Steaz diet energy is one of the most unique energy drinks I have had for a good many months. The drink is not only all natural, but like Kaboom and Guru this is also all organic. Steaz takes this even further, by having all their ingredients come from fair trade farmers. This means that rather than the ingredients getting grown by very poor farmers and getting paid very little, the company promises to pay the farmers a fair trade amount for their produce and support a more sustainable environment for them. This is advertised as 100% vegan, and full of exotic ingredients such as Yerba Mate and Acai fruit. They even forgot to add in the sucralose/saccarin/fructose glucose and instead lightly sweetened with cane sugar. With all these healthy and sustainable goodforyouandgoodforyourbody ingredients, how good could this possibly tasty? Simply amazingly delicious.

Taste:9
When you drink as many energy drinks as I do, even opening a new one that has never been tried, the initial flavor has become a familiarity. It becomes easier to categorize once the bubbles and the sugar hit your palate, and it can be compartmentalized into a soda, or a juice or dietary supplement, etc… I did not expect at all what came out of this can. The ingredients listed cane sugar, so I expected overly sweet and a little fruity. hat I got was a VERY lightly sweetened drink, bitter, but not at all sour. There was just enough sugar to blend with the berry flavor I tried, but not enough that the sweet was the most important taste. This was also very lightly carbonated, so the flavors of all the things they put inside really shone through. While I doubt this drink is for everyone, or even the AMPed masses, for my tired taste buds this drink was exceptional.

BUZZ/Nutrition:10
As I already mentioned, this drink is packed full of the best nutritive ingredients you can find, from organic cane juice, organic gurana, acai juice, yerba mate, Ceylon green tea, and Vitamin C. They completely leave out the usual energy drink mix, leaving out the taurine, niacin, all the B vitamins and glucosamine. This drink did have quite a punch though, with 85mg of caffeine in the 12oz can it was not tremendous, but the buzz was gradual and sustaining, rather than jittery – and the crash was non-existent.

Packaging:7
This was the only thing that I thought could have been better. The green to aluminum gradient did speak diet, but also spoke of health drink and certainly not energy. The name ( which I still don’t get) was prominently displayed, along with an almost newspaper quality picture ( why use such a low dpi image?) image of an ethnic woman drinking a hot cup of something or another. 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.