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If you feel like you’re always trying to spice up snack time, you’re probably not alone. New research shows more and more people are reaching for hot sauce and spicy snacks. According to a recent Instacart survey of more than 2,000 adults in the US, about 74-percent admit to topping off their food with hot sauce.

There are several key health benefits to adding some extra spice to your diet, but to keep it simple we’ve boiled it down to four of the top health benefits of eating more spicy food.

Eating chili peppers may just help you prolong your life when it comes to fighting off certain major health problems. The study found a possible connection between chili peppers and lower all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular-related mortality.

If you love peppers, you may also know, at least a little, about the Scoville Scale. Essentially, that’s the scale that gives a ranking to hot peppers, from top to bottom. While some peppers are extremely hot, others don’t even make much of a showing at all on the list.