Guava (Psidium guajava Linn.) commonly known for its food and nutritional values
throughout the world. The medicinal properties of guava fruit, leaf and other parts of the plant
are also well known in traditional system of medicine. Since, each part of guava tree
possesses economic value; it is grown on commercial scale. Guava plant is considerable
process has been achieved regarding the biological activity and medicinal application of
guava and the fruit considered as poor man apple of tropics. The guava plant parts are used
for the development of various industrial and pharmaceutical products. In the present review,
nutritional value of guava fruit and medicinal properties its various parts have been discussed
to provide collective information on its multi purpose commercial values.