Uses of Peptone Water
Peptone Water is used as a growth medium and as a base for carbohydrate fermentation media.
It is a broth medium used for the detection of indole.
It is minimal growth medium which is used for determining carbohydrate fermentation patterns of non-fastidious organisms.
It is useful as a diluent or for making suspensions of non-fastidious microorganisms for microbial enumeration procedures.