A Woolworths customer has allegedly found live maggots inside a bag of mixed fruit and nuts from one of the supermarket’s Sydney stores.

The 27-year-old customer, who only wanted to be identified as Fauzaan, told 9News.com.au he bought snacks for a movie with his girlfriend yesterday from the Wetherill Park Woolworths, in Sydney’s west, about midday.

He said he filled a self-serve bag of the fruit and nuts mix from an open container and paid for it before leaving for the movie.

A Sydney Woolworths customer alleges to have found maggots inside a self-serve bag of mixed fruit and nuts. (Supplied)

After entering the movie and eating some of the bag, he claimed he felt something move in his mouth and used his hands to pull out what he believed was a live maggot.

“I never thought I’d have to do this in my entire life – eating a maggot,” he said.

“That’s disgusting. That’s not something you want to do ever in your life.”

Fauzaan said he then left the movie early at about 1pm and returned to the supermarket to make a complaint, but was only met with a female staff member who said the store manager “was in a meeting”.

The customer told 9News.com.au staff at the Wetherill Park store, in Sydney's west, only offered him a $40 gift card as compensation. (Supplied)

“They grabbed this other [staff member] and then spoke to him and he said, ‘can you show me where you got it?’,” he said.

“When we went there, while I was waiting for him , I looked in the jar properly and there was a little maggot and a moth in it.

“They gave me the helpline number and the lady said, ‘what I can offer you is a $40 voucher. Email me the photos and videos you took so we can go through it’.”

The customer also said the second staff member removed the container, but did not inspect any other nearby foods.

The incident comes months after another Sydney customer also found maggots in a packet of dried figs from Woolworths' Fairfield store. (Supplied)

A Woolworths spokesperson told 9News.com.au the store is aware of the alleged incident.

“Our store team has removed the specific product from the shelf and undertaken a full check of remaining products in this range and section so customers can be confident of product quality,” the spokesperson said.

“We have apologised directly to the customer and are providing them with a gift card.”

The alleged incident came just six months after a heavily pregnant woman also claimed to have discovered maggots inside another fruit and nut mix from a Victorian Woolworths store.

Weeks before that, a heavily pregnant Victorian customer said she opened a packet of mixed fruit and nuts and also discovered maggots. (Supplied)

Photographs and video from that alleged incident show what appears to be a small maggot or weevil crawling along the edge of the box.

In July, another Sydney customer told 9News.com.au he found maggots inside a 500g Core Foods packet of dried Turkish figs bought from Woolworths’ Fairfield store.

Fauzaan told 9News.com.au he felt Woolworths didn’t offer him adequate customer support after the alleged discovery.

“It’s negligence. I couldn’t sleep last night because I’d just eaten maggots,” he said.

“[At the time] I said, ‘firstly you should have quarantined off the entire aisle and taken all the open food jars off the shelf so no one else could buy them,’.