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According to a recent study, consuming food rich in vitamin E could lower the risk of liver cancer in older people.

The foods rich in Vitamin E, such as almonds, peanuts, pine nuts and dried apricots are already known to protect against heart diseases and eye damage in old age.

For the study, Dr. Wei Zhang from Shanghai Cancer Institute examined data from 132,837 individuals, including 267 liver cancer patients in China.

The researchers quizzed the participants about their dietary habits and compared the risk of contracting liver cancer of those who had a high intake of Vitamin E intake to those who did not.

"We found a clear, inverse dose-response relation between vitamin E intake and liver cancer risk. The take home message is that high intake of vitamin E either from diet or supplements was related to lower risk of liver cancer in middle-aged or older people," Dr. Zhang was quoted as saying by Mail Online.

China contributes to 54 per cent of world's liver cancer cases and the disease is the third most common cause of cancer deaths in the world.  Approximately 85 per cent of liver cancers occur in developing nations, said the report.

The study was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.