Can beets help make your winter drive safer?

A vegetable solution can help make your winter commute a little safer.

Known as a beet heet, the solution combines beet molasses, liquid sugar and liquid chloride to melt ice.

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While most people think of salt as a go-to for treating roads, driveways and sidewalks during the winter, more counties in the Miami Valley are turning to beet heet and using it along with salt.

TIME LAPSE: How Beet Heat works with salt to melt ice Take a look at how beet heat combined with salt helps melt ice much faster than salt alone.

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Storm Center 7 Meterologist Kirstie Zontini spoke to county officials and a company that creates beet heet to learn more about the product and how it holds up when compared to salt. Tune in Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 5:30 p.m. to learn more.