This year at Chapman, a new obsession has taken hold: Alani Nu energy drinks.

Many students are drawn to the colorful cans, sweet taste and boost of caffeine.

“They have so many different flavors and they’re so colorful,” junior Leigha Bailey said.

Students said their top three favorites are strawberry sunrise, pink slush and red slush. The most requested new flavor is piña colada.

“I would say my dream flavor is piña colada,” junior Alison Loaiza Castro said.

Not everyone is a fan, though.

“I don’t like Alani’s because they’re too acidic and sugary, but I’d drink them if they had less artificial flavor,” sophomore Brooklynn Grice said.

Some students also point out the downsides of consuming too much caffeine.

“I was just in Spanish class, drinking my Alani. My heart started feeling weird and kind of skipped a beat,” Bailey said. “My whole chest started hurting and I was freaking out. Later, they had to wheelchair me out of class.”

Bailey said she later cut back after the health scare.

“I stopped drinking Alani’s for a couple months and now I just drink them once a week,” she said.

Grice also warned against making them a daily habit.

“Drinking one energy drink once in a while is okay, but every day is unhealthy,” Grice said.

Chapman nurse Pam Tolleson said she strongly discourages students from drinking energy drinks at all.

“I do not think energy drinks are appropriate for teenagers,” Tolleson said. “Energy drinks can be addictive, and when you try to cut it you get massive headaches.”