table salt vs flavouring

table salt and flavouring both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
table salt	Yes	No	No	No
flavouring	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, flavouring is a hypernym of table salt; that is, flavouring is a word with a broader meaning than table salt:

table salt: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
flavouring: something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts

Other hypernyms of table salt include flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, seasoner, seasoning.

table salt (noun)	flavouring (noun)
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food	something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts