NUTRIENT AGAR (W/ 1% PEPTONE)

Nutrient Agar with 1% Peptone has almost double concentration of the nitrogen sources than that used in Nutrient Agar, making it more nutritive. Nutrient media are basic culture media used for maintaining microorganisms, cultivating fastidious organisms by enriching with serum or blood and are also used for purity checking prior to biochemical or serological testing. It is one of the several non-selective media useful in routine cultivation of microorganisms.

General culture medium, can be used as enriched medium with blood or other biological fluids.