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In summary, the study reinforces diet quality as a potentially modifiable lever for primary HCC prevention. Future investigations should incorporate repeated dietary measures, richer socioeconomic and environmental data, comprehensive medication/comorbidity adjustment, and formal prediction modeling to determine whether plant-forward dietary counseling adds actionable value in diverse Asian populations. Ali Zahedian: Investigation; writing – original draft. Ebrahim Hejazian: Investigation; writing – original draft. Mohammad Barary: Investigation; writing – original draft; writing – review and editing. Mohammad Ranaee: Investigation; writing – original draft. Soheil Ebrahimpour: Investigation; writing – original draft; supervision. The authors thank the Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center of Babol University of Medical Sciences. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.