Even tough miss Alba manages a billion-dollar company, serves as a brand ambassador for ZICO Coconut Water, makes cameos in Taylor Swift music videos and looks outrageously pulled together every step of the way, to us she seems like one of the most “down to earth” celebrities Hollywood knows.
Her life doesn’t parallel ours but when it comes to food, she is like all of us: No time to cook elaborate meals, snacking throughout the day, and dousing everything with sriracha. To Cosmopoliton Alba tells about her favorite meals and when they ask her about the most unexpected thing one would find in her fridge she says: “The variety of hot sauce. I have five or six different types in my fridge,” she says. You can almost always find spicy buffalo wing sauce, Tabasco — “love the vinegar flavor” — sriracha, Cholula, and at least one habanero sauce. “Anything habanero-Caribbean-flavored, I’m down with.” 
What makes the body of the actress so amazing is probably the fact that she doesn’t really love sweets: “I’m not much of a sweets person. I actually have low blood sugar and low blood pressure, and I get very woozy if I don’t have enough salt,” she says. “When I do hot yoga, water isn’t enough. I need to have salty water or I’ll have coconut water. I just add a pinch of salt to water. I really like pink Himalayan.”
When they talk pancakes, Jessica revealed she actually likes to make them a little differently than the ‘traditional’ American Pancake: “I know they say you shouldn’t whisk pancake batter, but I do. I like to make them crepe-like. I make them out of gluten-free pancake mix, and I just thin out the batter with extra olive oil, egg and almond milk. Then, I whip it to death, and that makes really thin pancakes.”
On weekdays Alba’s dinners are very healthy: “I try to always have a salad, and I always make my own salad dressing — it just tastes better. I’ll often make a chicken quesadilla with corn tortillas — and gallons of hot sauce. Literally. It’s like I’m trying to burn a hole through my stomach. It’s so good. It’s such a problem.” Because she’s eating salads a lot she has the best salad-trick for us: “A chef told me you need to massage the kale, and it makes all the difference in the world. You know when you get fresh kale salad and it’s just too raw and it’s not pleasant? So you just massage the kale with the dressing. You have to eat it right away, though.”
What makes Jessica so cool as that she totally admits she has a guilty pleasure snack: “Nachos.” Jessica says she’ll put just about anything on them, but her favorite toppings are homemade black beans and jalapeno-almond cheese. “I’ve been trying to use alternatives to dairy … and Whole Foods sells an almond cheese that melts surprisingly well, but you have to grate it. You can’t do slices.” Her favorite go-to snacks during the week however are Popcorn and hummus with cucumber, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, and cauliflower.
