Epicurious.Com Picks eDiets(R) as Best Diet Meal Delivery Service

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As more and more dieters turn to meal delivery services as a convenient way to eat well and lose weight, eDiets is earning national recognition for raising the bar on what consumers can expect in taste and nutritional value. eDiets today announced that Epicurious.com, the award-winning food website, has selected eDiets as the winner of a test of the country's leading diet delivery programs. eDiets was selected for taste, nutrition, a wide range of meal choices and its personalized diet and fitness program over ZoneChefs(R), PureFoods(TM) Fresh LowCarb, Jenny Craig(R) Jenny Direct and NutriSystem(R)*.

For as little as $15.95 per day, eDiets delivers fresh chef prepared meals each day, customized to their food preferences. eDiets' newest meal delivery service, eDiets DeliciouslyYours, features a menu comprised of recipes and meals developed and prepared by top chefs who honed their skills at the Culinary Institute of America and leading restaurants across the country. A sampling from the menu includes delicious items such as Fresh Basil & Tomato Salad with Grilled Chicken, Homestyle Meatloaf, Classic Five Layer Lasagna and Shrimp Scampi. In addition, all menus are developed in conjunction with a staff of registered dietitians, so customers can feel secure in knowing these delicious entrees and desserts are appropriate to help them meet their lifestyle, diet and nutritional needs.

Once an order is created, chefs prepare the meals fresh in restaurant- style kitchens and immediately seal in the freshness with proprietary packaging. With this stay-fresh packaging, eDiets DeliciouslyYours guarantees a full 14-day shelf life from the day of receipt when the product is kept chilled in a refrigerator. The service is available throughout the continental United States, and meals can be delivered to the home, office or a hotel.

eDiets DeliciouslyYours is also the only major meal plan from a national weight-loss company that includes full membership to a proven online weight loss community. Customers on this delicious weight loss program can receive personal support from registered dietitians and certified personal trainers and 24/7/365 access to over 150 support boards, through which they can garner real-time motivation and support from eDiets' on-staff experts and member peers.

"We are honored that eDiets has been selected by Epicurious.com as the country's top diet meal delivery service," said Steve Rattner, president of eDiets. "As the premier online diet, fitness and healthy living destination, we know that better-tasting food is key to helping people stick to a diet, and we have taken unprecedented steps to provide unmatched freshness, taste, quality and variety of foods. To earn such high praise from one of the most influential and respected food sites affirms that we are offering customers more than other national weight-loss companies."

Information and registration for eDiets DeliciouslyYours is available at http://www.deliciouslyyours.com/. To view Epicurious.com's comprehensive guide to selecting a diet meal delivery service, please visit: http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/healthy/diet_delivery/index.

About eDiets

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, eDiets.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIET) is a premier online diet, fitness, and healthy living destination offering professional advice, information, products and services to those seeking to improve their health and longevity. In addition to offering more than 20 personalized online nutrition and fitness programs and around-the-clock expert and peer-based online support services, eDiets.com members enjoy direct access to a wealth professional advice, information, and motivation from the company's network of health industry experts in a variety of fields, including nutrition, fitness, and motivation, among others. Founded in 1996 and with more than two million membership subscriptions sold to date, eDiets.com operates Web sites at http://www.ediets.com/, http://www.edietscorporateservices.com/, http://www.efitness.com/, http://www.deliciouslyyours.com/ and http://www.gleemagazine.com/, and publishes a family of industry-leading opt-in electronic newsletters that reach millions of health-conscious consumers nationwide.

About Epicurious.com

Epicurious.com, a CondeNet site, is a premier award-winning food Web site, which incorporates more than 25,000 professionally tested recipes from the premier brands in food journalism, Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines, as well as web-exclusive original recipes from top chefs and cookbook authors around the world. It also contains over 35,000 member submitted recipes. Epicurious offers a wealth of articles and tips focused on cooking, entertaining, wine, cocktails, and shopping.

*Zone Chefs(R) is a registered trademark of Zone Chefs, LLC. Purefoods(TM) is a trademark of Purfoods, LLC. Jenny Craig(R) is a registered trademark of Jenny Craig, Inc. Nutrisystem(R) is a registered trademark of Nutrisystem, Inc.