This is because the sugary juice makes salt stick to the roads longer. The agency keeps about 6,000 gallons of the stuff on hand, mixed with 24,000 gallons of salt brine. While beet juice doesn ...
That's 242,000 gallons of the nutritious substance used ... has been solving its road ice problem with the help of beet juice. The product in question, Geomelt, is a sugar beet-based liquid ...