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Phytochemicals are naturally occurring in the medicinal plants leaves, stem bark, fruits and roots that have defense mechanism and protect us from various diseases. A medicinal plant is any plant which, in one or more of its organs, contains substances that can be used for therapeutic purposes, or which are precursors for chemo-pharmaceutical semi synthesis. Such a plant will have its parts including leaves, roots, rhizomes, stems, barks, flowers, fruits, grains or seeds, employed in the control or treatment of a disease condition and therefore contains chemical components that are medically active. They synthesis large variety of chemical substances known as secondary metabolites which include alkaloids, steroids, flavonoids, terpenoids, glycoside, saponia, tannins, phenolic compounds etc. the active principle of many drugs found in plants are secondary metabolites. The objective of the present study was to screen and quantify the phytochemicals present in various proportions of skin, pulp and seeds cabinet dried fruits such as Tomato, Pink Guava, Grapes and Watermelon. Preliminary qualitative phytochemical analysis was carried out by the standard procedures to identify the secondary metabolites like alkaloids, flavonoids, phenol, saponin, tannin, terpenoids, quinons, phlobatannin and steroids. Quantitative phytochemical test such as Alkaloids, Flavonoids and Total Phenol were also done. Tests were in triplicates and the results were interpreted in tables. It can be concluded that the cabinet dried pink guava pulp followed by watermelon pulp, grapes seed and tomato skin has the abundant quality of photochemical.