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World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2012, 2, 106-113 /10.4236/wjnst.2012.23016 Published Online July 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjnst) Effects of Food Diet Preparation Techniques on Radionuclide Intake and Its Implications for Individual Ingestion Effective Dose in Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria * Nnamdi Norbert Jibiri , Tolulope Hadrat Abiodun Radiation and Health Physics Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria * * Email: jibirinn@, nnamdi.jibiri@.ng Received February 3, 2012; revised March 29, 2012; accepted April 15, 2012 ABSTRACT The radioactivity measurements in food crops and their diet derivatives and farm soil samples from Abeokuta, one of the elevated background radiation areas in Nigeria have been carried out in order to determine the concentration levels of natural radionuclides (40K, 226Ra and 232Th). The activity concentrations of the natural radionuclides in the samples were determined via gamma-ray spectrometry using a 76 mm × 76 mm NaI(Tl) detector. Different common food crops representing the major sources of dietary requirements to the local population were collected for the measurements. The collected food crops were prepared into their different derivable composite diets using preparation techniques locale to the population. Using available food consumption data and the activity concentrations of the radionuclides, the inges- tion effective doses were evaluated for the food crops and diet types per preparation techniques. For the tuberous food crop samples, the annual ingestion effective doses in the raw and different composite di