EXHIBIT 5

                                  June 23, 2000

eDiets.com, Inc.
3467 W. Hillsboro Boulevard
Deerfield Beach, Florida  33442

Re:      Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel for eDiets.com, Inc. (the "Company") in connection with
the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed by the Company with the Securities
and Exchange Commission to effect the registration, pursuant to the Securities
Act of 1933, of 2,368,208 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value (the "Common
Stock"), which may be offered by the Company under the Stock Option Plan (the
"Plan"), and the miscellaneous stock option agreements covered by the
Registration Statement.

In connection with this opinion, we have relied as to matters of fact, without
investigation, upon certificates of public officials and others and upon
affidavits, certificates and statements of directors, officers and employees of,
and the accountants for, the Company. We also have examined originals or copies,
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporation and
other instruments, documents and records as we have deemed relevant and
necessary to examine for the purpose of this opinion, including the Plan and the
several non-Plan option agreements. In addition, we have reviewed such questions
of law as we have considered necessary and appropriate for the purposes of this
opinion.

We have assumed the accuracy and completeness of all documents and records that
we have reviewed, the genuineness of all signatures, the due authority of the
parties signing such documents, the authenticity of all documents submitted to
us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all the documents
submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the
originals of such letter documents.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we advise you that, in our opinion, the
shares of Common Stock proposed to be offered by the Company as set forth in the
Registration



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Statement have been duly authorized and, when issued and sold in accordance with
the Plan and several non-Plan option agreements referred to in the Registration
Statement, such shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
above-referenced Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not
hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required
under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933 or the rules and regulation of the
Securities and Exchange Commission.

We express no opinions as to matters under or involving any laws other than the
federal laws of the United States of America and the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware.

                                 Sincerely,

                                 NASON, YEAGER, GERSON, WHITE & LIOCE, P.A.

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