OBJECTIVES: The study focused on a secondary aspect of liver diseases, never investigated in Italy so far. The study purpose was in fact to obtain the patients’ perception about the role of nutrition during the disease phases and in general for liver welfare, with the final aim of understanding the importance given to nutrition by patients and the current disinformation to be possibly tackled. METHODS: EpaC is the most important Italian NGO for hepatopathic patients. An anonymous web-based questionnaire was published on the association website www.epac.itRESULTS: CONCLUSIONS: Considering that nutritional aspects are important in everybody’s life, they are particularly relevant in case of liver disease. The results shown express patients’ degree of knowledge about these aspects and highlights that a certain disinformation is widespread. The results also point out liver-suffering patients’ need to receive clinicians’ evidence-based advice/information on nutrition and lifestyle as part of the routine counselling and to develop an educational campaign on nutrition for hepatopathic patients.