Ethnomedicinal survey was conducted in certain selected areas of Western Ghats and the field study was carried out in 15 forest division of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala states. The ethnomedicinal information of wild fruits was collected through interviews from tribals and traditional healers. A total number of 59 wild fruit species belonging to 57 genera and 39 families used by tribals were recorded. Generally the wild fruits are used as raw or processed, which help to compensate the day-to-day requirements of calories. Wild fruits play significant role in human nutrition, especially as source of carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers and enormous medicinal potentials. Dietary use of wild fruits nuts and seeds, appear in numerous historical records. So the wild fruit have been identified to have a better nutritional value than cultivated fruits. The data were collected randomly from tribal and traditional healers of 80 informants in the study areas. Data were statistically analyzed by using suitable statistical tools such as Use Value (UV), Informant Consensus Factor (ICF), Fidelity Value (FL) and various ranking methods. Therefore the documented wild fruits can be used for future pharmacological research and awareness creation among the traditional healers and tribals communities at large becomes vital so as to preserve the indigenous knowledge associated with wild fruits species
