If you reach for chocolate ice cream when you’re feeling down, you may want to reconsider your comfort food of choice. New research suggests that vanilla — specifically yogurt flavored with the tasty bean — can boost your mood.

In findings published in the journal Food Research International, a team of researchers from the Netherlands, Austria, and Finland found that eating vanilla yogurts made people feel happy and that yogurts, Medical News today reports.

What’s more, people who ate yogurt with lower fat content had a stronger positive emotional response, but yogurts flavored with strawberry and pineapple had no measureable changes in their emotions.

The findings support previous studies that showed a subtle vanilla scent in places like hospital waiting rooms can reduce aggression and encourage relationships and ease tensions among patients and between patients and staff.

"This kind of information could be very valuable to product manufacturers, giving them a glimpse into how we subconsciously respond to a product,” said lead researcher Dr. Jozina Mojet from the Netherlands. “We were surprised to find that by measuring emotions, we could get information about products independent from whether people like them."