Vita Mojo

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It’s a collaborative effort between Ham Yard Hotel chef Paul Davis, City financier Nick Popovici and Formula One nutritionist Helene Patounas.

Customers are encouraged to choose one protein, three sides and a sauce.

Slide the counters up and down on the app to alter the protein to side ratio on your plate and watch the calories – and price – do the same.

Fresh ingredients and over 300 meal combinations will prove an irresistible pull for educated, health-conscious City workers.

It’ll be launching an app where customers can add their height, weight and fitness goals and its Smart Chef function will suggest meals and portion sizes, like a cheaper, portable nutritionist.

High-tech restaurant Vita Mojo set for flagship City site

The group, which lets diners use in-store iPads to customise their meals to meet their dietary needs, will open the 3,500 sq ft site in January 2018.

Vita Mojo aims to provide ‘full recipe transparency’ by calculating the exact nutritional make-up of each of its meals.

Vita Mojo launched in March 2016 and currently has two sites in Spitalfields and Canary Wharf.

“Healthy eating has been, and continues to be, the biggest trend we’ve witnessed in the food sector of late and we shall certainly be seeing Vita Mojo continue on its journey to expand across the capital and the UK,” says Alexander.

Vita Mojo was advised by Colliers International on acquiring the lease of its new City site.

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It argues that the dairy industry is struggling as a result of all the dairy-free alternatives on the market and the public are being duped too UK confectionary giant Cadbury has launched two new chocolate bars, hoping to lure those with a sweet tooth and perhaps help combat some of the challenges it faces from rising commodity prices and a post-Brexit slump in the value of the pound.The company’s new products will be peanut butter and mint flavoured.

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Deliciously Ella with her Mae “delis” (although she has now, in a slightly panicky way, distanced herself from the word “clean”); M Raw, “London’s first 100% gluten-free fine dining restaurant”; Vita Mojo, which promises to “put you in control of your diet”; the Detox Kitchen; Rawligion; and too many more.

But my main event is this glittering, plant-filled restaurant from Camilla Fayed, daughter of Mohammed Al, in west London, clean eating’s spiritual home.

In what’s something of a portent, ingredients are repeated all over the place: the frijoles, salsa, guacamole and “sour cream” (grouty stuff made from nuts) that feature in a plate of nachos also turn up in the Mexican bowl; ditto the meze – clunky, pasty sweet potato patties (“falafel”?

A vast, Instagram-worthy sundae, a “Berry Mess” of mostly blueberries, “cream” and “coconut nice cream” with, lurking in its depths, dusty shards of “maple meringue” (made of, I dunno, actual dust?)

• Farmacy 74 Westbourne Grove, London W2, 020-7221 0705.

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To order – online, or in the app – you first pick your favourite ingredients from a menu of ‘proteins’ ‘sides’ and ‘sauces’.

You then customise your dish by using sliding tools to alter how many grams of each ingredient you’d like.

As you slide these, the nutritional data of your lunch box automatically updates, counting your calories, your recommended veg portions, any allergens, and your balance of fats, proteins and carbs.

Pre-built box options start around £6, but can quickly become cheaper or more expensive if you alter the weight of your chosen ingredients.

“If you want 6 eggs for lunch or a bowl of kale with 60g of chicken, it is completely up to you.”

Vita Mojo | Restaurants in Spitalfields, London

If the thought of one more Pret salad makes you lose the will to live, Vita Mojo is the place to spice up your health kick.

The big idea at this bustling little Spitalfields branch (Vita Mojo’s second, following its debut in St Paul’s) is that customers design their own meals using swanky in-store iPads.

On screen you pick from around 28 different ingredients, sliding bars up and down to adjust quantities.

The ingredients on offer are virtuous without being boring; highlights include rich, meaty slow-cooked beef, nicely crisped chicken thighs and minty quinoa and pomegranate salad.

Granted, once I’d slid down all my bars to reach that classic diet bench mark of 500 cals, I was faced with a pretty teeny plateful, but if you are trying to slim down or have dietary requirements (everything here is gluten-free), Vita Mojo makes things nice and easy.