One material, one line: the texturizers family holds only agar-agar texturizer. As of 4 November 2026 its LiveQuote index is 4.7% higher than three months earlier and 2.8% higher than a year earlier, so the family average is simply that single move. One material up, none down.
Against the wider Ingredients group, that is a firm showing. The 147 ingredients with a move averaged +0.8% over three months, with 89 of them up and 56 down. It is one of those 89 risers, and well clear of the mean. Over one year the group average is slightly negative, at -0.5%, while agar-agar texturizer stays on the positive side of the line.
There is no market note on agar-agar texturizer for this period. We only give reasons for a move when a dated note reports them, so this letter offers none. The two figures are the public three-month and one-year changes of the index, and nothing more is claimed about them.
A word on scope, since buyers often source texturizing agents together. LiveQuote does not file pectin, guar gum or gum arabic here. They sit in the Flavourings, additives and colorings family, each with its own index, and guar gum also carries a dated market note in that family. A search for thickeners or gelling agents in LiveQuote therefore spans at least two families.
Because the family has a single member, its average smooths nothing out. Any change in agar-agar texturizer shows up one for one in the family figure. That sets it apart from the larger ingredient families, whose averages blend many materials moving in opposite directions. Here both horizons point the same way: higher over three months, higher over twelve.