Although each of us may have a personal preference in this never-ending debate, we’d like to provide some specific points to help you decide which flavor is easier or better to use. In different applications there definitely are some advantages or disadvantages. For dry mix manufacturing, powders certainly provide easy scaling, low water content and general disbursement by dry blending. In non-dry mixes, oil or water based liquids can provide easy disbursement and volume measuring. To some, liquid is favorable since most flavor components begin in a liquid form.